Inorganometallic Chemistry

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.

• Organometallic chemistry
• ceramic
• ceramics
• chemistry
• metals
• spectroscopy
• transition metal

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

  Thomas P. Fehlner

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