Chemical Kinetics and Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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3. Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Mechanisms

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4. Substitution Reactions on Metal Complexes

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5. Oxidative Additions and Reductive Eliminations

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6. Molecular Nonrigidity

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7. Electron-Transfer Reactions

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8. Reactions of Free Radicals

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9. Mechanism of Vitamin B12 Action

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10. Kinetics and Mechanisms of Metalloporphyrin Reactions

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    Pages 227-259

11. Metallocenes, Strong Electron Donors

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    Pages 261-279

12. Metal Complexes in Tumor Therapy

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13. Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis by Metals and Transition Metal Complexes

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    Pages 293-305

14. Chemical and Biological Nitrogen Fixation

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15. Cascade Molecules (Dendrimers)

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16. Metal Complexes with Short Memory Effect

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17. Some Recent Publications in the Scientific Spotlight

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18. Back Matter

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The serious study of the reaction mechanisms of transition metal com­ plexes began some five decades ago. Work was initiated in the United States and Great Britain; the pioneers ofthat era were, inalphabetical order, F. Basolo, R. E. Connick, 1. O. Edwards, C. S. Garner, G. P.Haight, W. C. E. Higgision, E.1. King, R. G. Pearson, H. Taube, M.1. Tobe, and R. G. Wilkins.A larger community of research scientists then entered the field, many of them stu­ dents ofthose just mentioned. Interest spread elsewhere as well, principally to Asia, Canada, and Europe. Before long, the results ofindividual studies were being consolidated into models, many of which traced their origins to the better-established field of mechanistic organic chemistry. For a time this sufficed, but major revisions and new assignments of mechanism became necessary for both ligand sub­ stitution and oxidation-reduction reactions. Mechanistic inorganic chemistry thus took on a shape of its own. This process has brought us to the present time. Interests have expanded both to include new and more complex species (e.g., metalloproteins) and a wealth of new experimental techniques that have developed mechanisms in ever-finer detail. This is the story the author tells, and in so doing he weaves in the identities of the investigators with the story he has to tell. This makes an enjoyable as well as informative reading.

• Arrhenius equation
• Chemical kinetics
• Chemical reaction
• Inorganic Chemistry
• Kinetic resolution
• Nucleophilic substitution
• Oxidation
• Steric effect
• Transition state
• Transition state theory
• base
• catalysis
• fullerenes
• organic chemistry
• spectroscopy

`[...]it is clearly aimed toward researchers in this field of study and is likely to become a staple on the shelves of practicing inorganic chemists. Recommended.'
Choice, 41:6 (February 2004)

• Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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