Organometallic and Solid State Chemistry

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Main group organometallic chemistry of elements from groups 1, 2, 13 and 14 will be discussed in detail, while the organometallic chemistry of the metallic and metalloid elements of groups 12, 15 and 16 will be mentioned. In addition, metal-metal bonding and metal-oxygen bonding will be treated as special topics. The structures of polyoxometallates and chromium diacetate will be presented, which both will be synthesised in the practical part of the course in addition to a metallocene compound and their acetylation products. Organozirconocene and sandwich-type metallocene complexes and their chemistry, transition metal carbonyl chemistry and homogeneous hydrogenations will be presented. Structure and reactivity of transition metal carbene compounds will be outlined.