Course Program

COURSE TOPICS of PART1

When available, please download the Program file, print it, read carefully and keep it until exam is passed.

TOPICS - PART 1 - Prof. F. Neve

Mechanisms of substitution reactions for octahedral and square-planar complexes.

(Ch.13-HUHEEY + classroom material)

Organometallic complexes, M-C bonds and EAN rule.

Transition-metal carbonyl complexes.

σ-Donor ligands and complexes. σ-Donor/π-Acceptor ligands: metal-alkenyl, -aryl, and -alkynyl complexes.

Transition-metal carbenes and carbynes.

σ, π-Donor/π-Acceptor ligands. Alkene complexes. Alkyne complexes. Enyl complexes. Complexes of cyclic CnHn π-ligands. Cyclopentadienyl complexes. Metallocenes.

(Ch. 12–15-ORGANOMETALLICS + classroom material)

Reactivity of organometallic complexes. Oxidative addition. Reductive elimination. Insertion reaction. Nucleophilic and electrophilic attack at coordinated ligands and metal centers. Transmetallation reaction. Thermal and photo-assisted substitution reactions of organometallic complexes.

(Part of Ch.15- HUHEEY + classroom material)

Catalytic reactions with transition-metal complexes. Hydrogenation of alkenes. Alkene hydroformylation. Alkene metathesis. Alkene oxidation (Wacker process).

(Part of Ch.17-ORGANOMETALLICS + classroom material)

TEXTBOOKS (Part 1)

Selected chapters from both the following books

Huheey, Keiter, Keiter

INORGANIC CHEMISTRY: Principles of Structure and Reactivity

Prentice Hall (1997, 4th Edition)

or the equivalent italian version

CHIMICA INORGANICA: Principi, Strutture, Reattività, Piccin (1999)

C. Elschenbroich

ORGANOMETALLICS

Wiley-VCH (2005, 3rd edition)

ALTERNATIVE textbooks to the Huheey, Kieter&Kieter "Inorganic Chemistry" book

one may use

in English

Weller, Overton, Rourke, Armstrong "Inorganic Chemistry", Oxford University Press, 6th ed.

Atkins, Overton, Rourke, Weller, Armstrong "Inorganic Chemistry", Oxford University Press, 5th ed.

in Italiano

Atkins, Overton, Rourke, Weller, Armstrong, " Chimica Inorganica", 5a edizione, Zanichelli, ISBN 978-8808058096.

Further optional reading available at the library - Organometallic Chemistry Books

(for an alternative point of view)

R. H. Crabtree

THE ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY OF THE TRANSITION

METALS

Wiley-VCH (2014) 6th edition (even the 5th works well).

J. P. Collman, L. S. Hegedus, J. R. Norton, R. G. Finke

PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF ORGANOTRANSITION METAL CHEMISTRY

University Science Books (1987)