| CODE | CHE3461 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Organometallic Chemistry and Structural Determination of Inorganic Materials | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Chemistry | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit may not be taken with CHE3460. Organometallic chemistry and structure determination of inorganic materials: 1. Definition of organometallic chemistry: Metal to carbon bonds; types of bonding; Methods of formation of bonds; Reactivity of the metal to carbon bonds. 2. Organometallic compounds of: alkaline earths, beryllium and the magnesium group; Zinc, mercury and cadmium; aluminium, gallium, indium and thallium; Silicon, geranium, tin and lead. 3. Organometallic compounds of the transition metals: 18 electron rule; preparation of carbonyls; structures of carbonyls. Interpretation of infra red spectra; reactions of carbonyls and derivatives. 4. Donor and acceptor ligands: Olefin and alkyne complexes; Allyl complexes; cyclo pentadienyl metal complexes. 5. Pseudo organometallic complexes: nitrosyl complexes; phospine complexes. 6. Metal -Metal bonds and clusters: Formation and criteria of metal -metal bonds; structure and bonding - isolability; di nuclear - tetranuclear clusters. 7. Organometallic catalysis: Isomerisations; Oligomerisation and polymerization; Fischer - Tropsch Monsanto and Reppe processes. 8. Methods of structure determination Recommended Texts: - Coates, Green, Powell & Wades, Principles of Organometallic chemistry. Methuen & Co. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Standard Study-Unit | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Ulrich Baisch |
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