Organometallics 1 Complexes with Transition Metal-Carbon *s-bonds

This succinct text presents an accessible account of the main classes oftransition metal organometallic complexes and introduces the reader to thechemistry of compounds with metal carbon O bonds: metal carbonyls, metal alkyls,and metal alkylidenes and alkylidynes. The synthetic methods leading to eachclass of comounds are illustrated with pertinent examples, followed by thediscussion of characterisitic structures and reactivity patterns. Thesystematic approach will provide undergraduate readers with a concise overviewof this area of inorganic chemistry.