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Readings are from the required text book:

Amazon logo Collman, James P., et al. Principles and Applications of Organotransition Metal Chemistry. Mill Valley, CA: University Science Books, 1987. ISBN: 9780935702514.

The table below shows the readings assigned for each lecture.  The topics are taken from the chapter and section titles in the text book.


LEC #CH #SEC #TOPICS
11read all sectionsA Perspective.
2read sections belowStructure and bonding
2.1

The relation between formal oxidation state and d electron configuration. 

2.2∏ Bonding in organotransition metal complexes.
22read sections belowStructure and Bonding
2.3Apparent exceptions to the 18-electron rule.
2.4

Isoelectronic and isolobal analogies.

3 read sections below

Survey of organotransition metal complexes according to ligand.

 3.1

Introduction. 

3.2

Classic lewis base donors - N, Group VIB, and Group VIIB .

3.3

Phosphines and other group VB donors. 

3.4

Hydrides. Synthesis of hydrides; acidity and related properties of hydrides.

3.5

Carbon ligands bound principally by σ bonds.  

3.6

Carbon ligands bound by σ and ∏ bonds.

3.7Organic ligands bound through more than one atom.
33read sections below

Survey of organotransition metal complexes according to ligand.

3.8

Unsaturated nitrogen ligands.

3.9

Dioxygen complexes.

3.10Carbon dioxide.
3.11Sulfur monoxide.
3.12Sulfur dioxide.
3.13Miscellaneous ligands.
4 read sections belowLigand substitution processes.
4.1Introduction.
4.2Definitions - Nomenclature of substitution reactions.
4.3

Thermochemical considerations.

4.4Examples and mechanisms: Coordinatively unsaturated complexes.
44read sections below

Ligand substitution processes.

4.5

18-Electron complexes.

4.6

Catalyzed and assisted ligand substitution reactions.

4.7Ligand substitutions in metal-metal bonded bimetallic and higher nuclearity clusters.
5 read sections below

Oxidative addition and reductive elimination.

5.1

Definitions, examples and scope.

5.2

Oxidative addition - Thermodynamic considerations. 

5.3

Nonpolar reagents (Class A) A-B.

5.4

Alkane activation by C-H bond oxidative addition and related reactions.

5.5

Oxidative-addition of polar, electrophilic reagents, A-B. 

56read all sections

Intramolecular insertion reactions.

7read all sections

Nucleophilic attack on ligands coordinated to transition metals. 

8read all sections

Electrophilic attack on coordinated ligands.

11read all sections

Catalytic polymerization of olefins and acetylenes. 

12read all sectionsCatalytic reactions involving carbon monoxide.
69read all sections

Metallacycles.

16read all sections

Synthetic applications of transition-metal carbenes and metallacycles. 

710read all sections

Homogeneous catalytic hydrogenation, hydrosilation, and hydrocyanation.

13read all sectionsSynthetic applications of transition-metal hydrides.
14read all sections

Synthetic applications of complexes containing metal-carbon σ bonds.

815read sections belowSynthetic applications of transition-metal carbonyl compounds.
15.1Coupling reactions.
15.2

Carbonylation reactions.

915read sections belowSynthetic applications of transition-metal carbonyl compounds.
15.3Decarbonylation of aldehydes and acid chlorides.
15.4Reactions of metal acyl enolates with electrophiles.

 








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