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This succinct text outlines the main classes of transition metal organometallic complexes and introduces the reader to the chemistry of compounds with metal-carbon *s-bonds: metal carbonyls, metal alkyls, and metal alkylidenes and alkylidnes. The synthetic methods leading to each class of compounds are illustrated with pertinent examples, followed by the discussion of characteristic structures and reactivity patterns. The aim is to allow undergraduate students a quick overview over this area of chemistry. Highlights and excursions stress general principles and relate the material to specific applications such as catalytic processes.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #33591 in Books
• Published on: 1994-03-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Very good undergraduate intro to organometallics
This books is ideal for the undergraduate starting to think about organometallic chemistry. It takes you clearly through the first principles such as the 18 electron rule and different types of ligands clearly and without any guff. Interlaced with the facts are occassional snipets of history just to set things in some sort of perspective. However, the book is not exhaustive, being only thin and undergraduaty but it's well worth having all the same. Of all the Oxford Chemistry Primers series I found this book and the second volume in the same series the most helpful during my degree.