The Chemistry of Metal Alkoxides

• Main Authors: Turova, Nataliya Ya (Author), Turevskaya, Evgenia P. (Author), Kessler, Vadim G. (Author), Yanovskaya, Maria I. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Inorganic chemistry.; Materials science.; Inorganic Chemistry.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

The study of the chemistry of metal alkoxides, which began more than 100 years ago, is now experiencing a renaissance connected with the broad application of these compounds as molecular precursors in the synthesis of materials of modern technology based on simple and complex oxides. The solution of...

Table of Contents:

• General Synthetic Approaches
• Physicochemical Properties of Alkoxides: Regularities in the Homologous Series
• Crystal and Molecular Structures of Metal Alkoxides
• Oxoalkoxides
• Specific Features of Physico-Chemical Behavior: «Coordination Polymerism»
• Heteroleptic Metal Alkoxides Containing Carboxylato-, ?-Diketonato, and Aminoalkoxide Ligands
• Adducts and Heterometallic Alkoxides
• Hydrolysis of Metal Alkoxides and Synthesis of Simple Oxides by The Sol-Gel Method
• Synthesis of Complex Oxides From Metal Alkoxides
• Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials
• The Overview of Metal Alkoxide Derivatives along the Groups of the Periodic Table.