Preface |
List of Abbreviations |
Introduction / 1: |
Werner Complexes / 1.1: |
The Trans Effect / 1.2: |
Soft Versus Hard Ligands / 1.3: |
The Crystal Field / 1.4: |
The Ligand Field / 1.5: |
Back Bonding / 1.6: |
Electroneutrality / 1.7: |
Types of Ligand / 1.8: |
General Properties of Organometallic Complexes / 2: |
The 18-Electron Rule / 2.1: |
Limitations of the 18-Electron Rule / 2.2: |
Electron Counting in Reactions / 2.3: |
Oxidation State / 2.4: |
Coordination Number and Geometry / 2.5: |
Effects of Complexation / 2.6: |
Differences between Metals / 2.7: |
Outer-Sphere Coordination / 2.8: |
Metal Alkyls, Aryls, and Hydrides and Related ?-Bonded Ligands / 3: |
Transition Metal Alkyls and Aryls / 3.1: |
Related ?-Bonded Ligands / 3.2: |
Metal Hydride Complexes / 3.3: |
Complexes / 3.4: |
Bond Strengths for Classical ?-Bonding Ligands / 3.5: |
Carbonyls, Phosphine Complexes, and Ligand Substitution Reactions / 4: |
Metal Complexes of CO, RNC, CS, and NO / 4.1: |
Phosphines and Related Ligands / 4.2: |
Dissociative Substitution / 4.3: |
Associative Mechanism / 4.4: |
Redox Effects, the I Mechanism, and Rearrangements in Substitution / 4.5: |
Photochemical Substitution / 4.6: |
Steric and Solvent Effects in Substitution / 4.7: |
Complexes of A-Bound Ligands / 5: |
Alkene and Alkyne Complexes / 5.1: |
Allyl Complexes / 5.2: |
Diene Complexes / 5.3: |
Cyclopentadienyl Complexes / 5.4: |
Arenes and Other Alicyclic Ligands / 5.5: |
Metalacycles and Isoelectronic and Isolobal Replacement / 5.6: |
Stability of Polyene and Polyenyl Complexes / 5.7: |
Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination / 6: |
Concerted Additions / 6.1: |
SN2 Reactions / 6.2: |
Radical Mechanisms / 6.3: |
Ionic Mechanisms / 6.4: |
Reductive Elimination / 6.5: |
?-Bond Metathesis / 6.6: |
Oxidative Coupling and Reductive Cleavage / 6.7: |
Insertion and Elimination / 7: |
Reactions Involving CO / 7.1: |
Insertions Involving Alkenes / 7.2: |
Other Insertions / 7.3: |
?, ?, ?, and ' Elimination / 7.4: |
Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Addition and Abstraction / 8: |
Nucleophilic Addition to CO / 8.1: |
Nucleophilic Addition to Polyene and Polyenyl Ligands / 8.2: |
Nucleophilic Abstraction in Hydrides, Alkyls, and Acyls / 8.3: |
Electrophilic Addition / 8.4: |
Electrophilic Abstraction of Alkyl Groups / 8.5: |
Single-Electron Transfer Pathways / 8.6: |
Reactions of Organic Free Radicals with Metal Complexes / 8.7: |
Homogeneous Catalysis / 9: |
Alkene Isomerization / 9.1: |
Alkene Hydrogenation / 9.2: |
Alkene Hydroformylation / 9.3: |
Hydrocyanation of Butadiene / 9.4: |
Alkene Hydrosilation and Hydroboration / 9.5: |
Coupling Reactions / 9.6: |
Surface and Supported Organometallic Catalysis / 9.7: |
Physical Methods in Organometallic Chemistry / 10: |
Isolation / 10.1: |
1H NMR Spectroscopy / 10.2: |
13C NMR Spectroscopy / 10.3: |
31P NMR Spectroscopy / 10.4: |
Dynamic NMR / 10.5: |
Spin Saturation Transfer / 10.6: |
T1 and the Nuclear Overhauser Effect / 10.7: |
Isotopic Perturbation of Resonance / 10.8: |
IR Spectroscopy / 10.9: |
Crystallography / 10.10: |
Other Methods / 10.11: |
Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds / 11: |
Carbenes / 11.1: |
Carbynes / 11.2: |
Bridging Carbenes and Carbynes / 11.3: |
N-Heterocyclic Carbenes / 11.4: |
Multiple Bonds to Heteroatoms / 11.5: |
Applications of Organometallic Chemistry / 12: |
Alkene Metathesis / 12.1: |
Dimerization, Oligomerization, and Polymerization of Alkenes / 12.2: |
Activation of CO and CO2 / 12.3: |
CH Activation / 12.4: |
Organometallic Materials and Polymers / 12.5: |