Principles of Organometallic Chemistry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. General survey

   • G. E. Coates, M. L. H. Green, P. Powell, K. Wade

   Pages 1-13

3. Methods of formation of metal-carbon bonds of the main group elements

   • G. E. Coates, M. L. H. Green, P. Powell, K. Wade

   Pages 14-30

4. Organometallic compounds of elements of the first three periodic groups

   • G. E. Coates, M. L. H. Green, P. Powell, K. Wade

   Pages 31-120

5. Organometallic compounds of elements of main groups IV and V

   • G. E. Coates, M. L. H. Green, P. Powell, K. Wade

   Pages 121-149

6. Organometallic compounds of the d-block transition elements: classification of ligands and theories of bonding

   • G. E. Coates, M. L. H. Green, P. Powell, K. Wade

   Pages 150-167

7. Preparation of organo-transition metal compounds

   • G. E. Coates, M. L. H. Green, P. Powell, K. Wade

   Pages 168-182

8. Reactions and structures of organometallic compounds of the transition elements

   • G. E. Coates, M. L. H. Green, P. Powell, K. Wade

   Pages 183-214

9. The organic chemistry of ferrocene and related compounds

   • G. E. Coates, M. L. H. Green, P. Powell, K. Wade

   Pages 215-223

10. Organometallic complexes formed from acetylenes

    • G. E. Coates, M. L. H. Green, P. Powell, K. Wade

    Pages 224-232

11. The role of organotransition metal complexes in some catalytic reactions

    • G. E. Coates, M. L. H. Green, P. Powell, K. Wade

    Pages 233-249

12. Back Matter

    Pages 250-258

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The second edition of Organometallic Compounds (1960) was used not only by specialists but also as an undergraduate textbook. The third edition, recently published in two volumes, is about three times the length of the second and contains considerably more factual material than is appropriate for a student textbook. Therefore we believe that a shorter treatment would be welcome. In planning this book the authors have emphasized matters more of prin­ ciple than of detail, and have included in the first two chapters some general discussion of the properties and syntheses of organometallic compounds that is not to be found in the larger work. Some aspects of the organic chemistry of arsenic, and of silicon with particular reference to silicone polymers, are also included. Most university teachers of chemistry are becoming seriously concerned about the relentless increase in the amount and complexity of the material that is squeezed into undergraduate chemistry courses. With this in mind the authors have tried to cut detail to a minimum, but readers will find that the relative amount presented varies considerably between the various topics discussed. In general the treatment is more extensive than usual only if either or both of these conditions are met: (1), the subject has significant bearing on other major branches of chemistry including im­ portant industrial processes; (2), the topic is commonly misunderstood or found to be confusing.

• aluminium
• atom
• barium
• beryllium
• calcium
• halogenation
• iron
• lithium
• magnesium
• metals
• nickel
• olefine
• organometallic chemistry
• silicon
• transition metal

• University of Wyoming, USA

  G. E. Coates

• Balliol College, Oxford, UK

  M. L. H. Green

• Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK

  P. Powell

• University of Durham, UK

  K. Wade

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