Basic Organometallic Chemistry : Concepts, Syntheses and Applications

Contents 1 Introduction 2 The 18 valence electron rule 3 Metal carbonyls 4 Neutral spectator ligands Phosphines and N- heterocyclic carbenes 5 Alkenes and alkynes as ligands 6 Carbenes and carbynes complexes with metal carbon double and triple bonds 7 Alkyl aryl and ligands with higher hapticity 8 Unique reactions in organometallic chemistry 9 Ligand substitution reactions metal?metal bonding and fluxionality in organometallic compounds 10 Organometallic clusters 11 Homogeneous catalysis using organometallic compounds 12 Hydrogenation hydrosilylation and hydrocyanation of alkenes and asymmetric hydrogenation 13 Hydroformylation 14 Methanol carbonylation and olefin oxidation Monsanto Cativa and Wacker processes 15 Olefin metathesis 16 Palladium catalysed C?C and C?N cross coupling reactions 17 Olefin polymerisation reactions 18 Ferrocene Structure bonding and reactions 19 Organometallic polymers 20 Bioorganometallic chemistryThe objective of this book is to inculcate interest in understanding transition-metal organometallic chemistry No existing book has covered such a large variety of topics in such detail The material is up to date and the students or instructors may not be required to look for extra material unless they wish to delve deeper into the subject Basic Organometallic Chemistry Concepts Syntheses and Applications can be used by graduate and undergraduate students and researchers in many areas of chemistry to understand the fundamentals of organometallic chemistry The chapters are written using very simple language Text is lavishly complemented with figures equations and schemes for easy comprehension A large number of problems and exercises at the end of each chapter with detailed solutions Several carefully selected and recent references ?Boxed? matter on related interesting material Short questions to each chapter provided in appendix 544 pp.…