Organotransition Metal
Chemistry - From Bonding to Catalysis provides a selective, but
thorough and authoritative coverage of the fundamentals of organometallic
chemistry, the elementary reactions of these complexes, and many catalytic
processes occurring through organometallic intermediates. Built upon the
foundation established by the classic text by Collman, Hegedus, Norton and
Finke, this text consists of new or thoroughly updated and restructured chapters
and provides an in-depth view into mechanism, reaction scope, and
applications.



The early chapters describe the principles of bonding and the classes of ligands
that characterize organotransition metal chemistry. The remainder of the book
focuses on the reactions of organometallic complexes. The second portion of the
book describes the classic stoichiometric organometallic reactions, including
ligand substitution, oxidative addition, reductive elimination, migratory
insertions, eliminations, electrophilic attack on coordinated ligands,
nucleophilic attack on coordinated ligands, and chemistry of metal-ligand
multiple bonds. The third portion of the text describes the principles of
catalysis and the classic catalytic processes of organometallic systems. Written
by a teacher and experienced practitioner of the field, the book's content is
simultaneously accessible to students with no background in the subject matter
and invaluable to synthetic organic chemists, inorganic chemists, and even
experts in the field.