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Inorganometallic Chemistry

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Thomas P. Fehlner

    1. Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

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Part of the book series: Modern Inorganic Chemistry (MICE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Thomas P. Fehlner
    Pages 1-11

  3. Main Group Fragments as Ligands to Transition Metals

    • Thomas P. Fehlner
    Pages 13-71

  4. Transition Metal—Main Group Cluster Compounds

    • Catherine E. Housecroft
    Pages 73-178

  5. Bonding Connections and Interrelationships

    • D. M. P. Mingos
    Pages 179-221

  6. Experimental Comparison of the Bonding in Inorganometallic and Organometallic Complexes by Photoelectron Spectroscopy

    • Dennis L. Lichtenberger, Anjana Rai-Chaudhuri, Royston H. Hogan
    Pages 223-251

  7. Transition Metal-Promoted Reactions of Main Group Species and Main Group-Promoted Reactions of Transition Metal Species

    • Russell N. Grimes
    Pages 253-288

  8. The Metal—Nonmetal Bond in the Solid State

    • Timothy Hughbanks
    Pages 289-331

  9. Molecular Precursors to Thin Films

    • M. L. Steigerwald
    Pages 333-358

  10. Ceramics

    • Robert T. Paine
    Pages 359-385

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 387-401
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There is a certain fascination associated with words. The manipulation of strings of symbols according to mutually accepted rules allows a language to express history as well as to formulate challenges for the future. But language changes as old words are used in a new context and new words are created to describe changing situations. How many words has the computer revolution alone added to languages? "Inorganometallic" is a word you probably have never encountered before. It is one created from old words to express a new presence. A strange sounding word, it is also a term fraught with internal contradiction caused by the accepted meanings of its constituent parts. "In­ organic" is the name of a discipline of chemistry while "metallic" refers to a set of elements constituting a subsection of that discipline. Why then this Carrollian approach to entitling a set of serious academic papers? Organic, the acknowledged doyenne of chemistry, is distinguished from her brother, inorganic, by the prefix "in," i. e. , he gets everything not organic. Organometallic refers to compounds with carbon-metal bonds. It is simple! Inorganometallic is everything else, i. e. , compounds with noncarbon-metal element bonds. But why a new term? Is not inorganic sufficient? By virtue of training, limited time, resources, co-workers, and so on, chemists tend to work on a specific element class, on a particular compound type, or in a particular phase. Thus, one finds element-oriented chemists (e. g.

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  • Department of Chemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

    Thomas P. Fehlner

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