Figures | p. xi |
Preface | p. xvii |
An Overview of Organometallic Chemistry | |
Striking Difference | p. 1 |
Historical Background | p. 4 |
Fundamentals of Structure and Bonding | p. 13 |
Atomic Orbitals | p. 13 |
Molecular Orbitals | p. 21 |
Computational Organometallic Chemistry | p. 42 |
The 18-Electron Rule | p. 53 |
Counting Electrons | p. 53 |
Why 18 Electrons? | p. 60 |
Square Planar Complexes | p. 69 |
The Carbonyl Ligand | p. 75 |
Bonding | p. 75 |
Binary Carbonyl Complexes | p. 83 |
Oxygen-Bonded Carbonyls | p. 86 |
Ligands Similar to CO | p. 87 |
IR Spectra | p. 92 |
Main Group Parallels with Binary Carbonyl Complexes | p. 96 |
Pi Ligands | p. 103 |
Linear Pi Systems | p. 103 |
Cyclic ? Systems | p. 107 |
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Organometallic Compounds | p. 127 |
Other Important Ligands | p. 136 |
Complexes Containing M-C, M=C, and M=C Bonds | p. 136 |
Hydride and Dihydrogen Complexes | p. 152 |
Phosphines and Related Ligands | p. 155 |
Fullerene Ligands | p. 160 |
Mass Spectra | p. 165 |
Organometallic Reactions I: Reactions That Occur at the Metal | p. 176 |
Ligand Substitution | p. 178 |
Oxidative Addition | p. 202 |
Reductive Elimination | p. 226 |
Organometallic Reactions II: Reactions Involving Modification of Ligands | p. 244 |
Insertion and Deinsertion | p. 244 |
Nucleophilic Addition to the Ligand | p. 267 |
Nucleophilic Abstraction | p. 285 |
Electrophilic Reactions | p. 289 |
Homogeneous Catalysis: The Use of Transition Metal Complexes in Catalytic Cycles | p. 311 |
Fundamental Concepts of Homogeneous Catalysis | p. 312 |
The Hydroformylation Reaction | p. 322 |
The Wacker-Smidt Synthesis of Acetaldehyde | p. 340 |
Hydrogenation | p. 350 |
Carbonylation of Methanol | p. 361 |
Hydrocyanation | p. 367 |
Specialty Chemicals | p. 375 |
Transition Metal-Carbene and-Carbyne Complexes: Structure, Preparation, and Chemistry | p. 393 |
Structure of Metal Carbenes | p. 394 |
Synthesis of Metal Carbene Complexes | p. 407 |
Reactions of Metal-Carbene Complexes | p. 419 |
Metal-Carbyne Complexes | p. 439 |
sMetathesis and Polymerization Reactions | p. 456 |
¿ Bond Metathesis | p. 456 |
Alkyne Metathesis | p. 486 |
Ziegler-Natta and Related Polymerizations of Alkenes | p. 492 |
¿ Bond Metathesis | p. 507 |
Applications of Organometallic Chemistry to Organic Synthesis | p. 522 |
Enantioselective Functional Group Interconversions | p. 524 |
Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation via Nucleophilic Attack on an ¿3-¿ Ligand: The Tsuji-Trost Reaction | p. 555 |
Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation via Carbonyl and Alkene Insertion | p. 567 |
Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation via Transmetalation Reactions (Cross-Coupling Reactions) | p. 584 |
Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation through Cyclization Reactions | p. 613 |
Isolobal Groups and Cluster Compounds | p. 640 |
The Isolobal Analogy | p. 640 |
Cluster Compounds | p. 650 |
List of Abbreviations | p. A-1 |
Answers to Exercises | p. A-5 |
Index | p. I-1 |
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