The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals, Fourth Edition

Fully updated and expanded to reflect recent advances, this Fourth Edition of the classic text provides students and professional chemists with an excellent introduction to the principles and general properties of organometallic compounds, as well as including practical information on reaction mechanisms and detailed descriptions of contemporary applications. Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–28): Chapter 2 General Properties of Organometallic Complexes (pages 29–52): Chapter 3 Metal Alkyls, Aryls, and Hydrides and Related ??Bonded Ligands (pages 53–85): Chapter 4 Carbonyls, Phosphine Complexes, and Ligand Substitution Reactions (pages 87–124): Chapter 5 Complexes of ??Bound Ligands (pages 125–158): Chapter 6 Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination (pages 159–182): Chapter 7 Insertion and Elimination (pages 183–206): Chapter 8 Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Addition and Abstraction (pages 207–234): Chapter 9 Homogeneous Catalysis (pages 235–273): Chapter 10 Physical Methods in Organometallic Chemistry (pages 275–308): Chapter 11 Metal–Ligand Multiple Bonds (pages 309–341): Chapter 12 Applications of Organometallic Chemistry (pages 343–377): Chapter 13 Clusters and the Metal–Metal Bond (pages 379–416): Chapter 14 Applications to Organic Synthesis (pages 417–462): Chapter 15 Paramagnetic, High?Oxidation?State, and High?Coordination?Number Complexes (pages 463–489): Chapter 16 Bioorganometallic Chemistry (pages 491–520):