Landmarks in Organo-Transition Metal Chemistry A Personal View /

• Main Author: Werner, Helmut (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Profiles in Inorganic Chemistry,
• Subjects: Chemistry.; History.; Inorganic chemistry.; Organometallic chemistry.; Catalysis.; Organometallic Chemistry.; Inorganic Chemistry.; History of Science.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.

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Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Biographical Sketch
• The Nineteenth Century: A Sequence of Accidental Discoveries
• Transition Metal Carbonyls: From Small Molecules to Giant Clusters
• A Scientific Revolution: The Discovery of the Sandwich Complexes
• One Deck More: The Chemical #x201C;Big Mac#x201D;
• The Binding of Ethene and Its Congeners: Prototypical Metal #x03C0;-Complexes
• Metal Carbenes and Carbynes: The Taming of #x201C;Non-existing#x201D; Molecules
• Metal Alkyls and Metal Aryls: The #x201C;True#x201D; Transition Organometallics
• Epilogue.