TY - BOOK AU - Gupta, B.D. AU - Elias, A.J. TI - Basic Organometallic Chemistry: Concepts, Syntheses, and Applications SN - 9788173718748 U1 - 547.05 PY - 2013/// CY - Hyderabad PB - Universities Press KW - Organometallic chemistry KW - Organotransition metal compounds N1 - Introduction The 18 valence electron rule Metal carbonyls Neutral spectator ligands: phosphines and N-heterocyclic carbenes Alkenes and alkynes as ligands Carbenes and carbynes: complexes with metal-carbon double and triple bonds Alkyl, aryl and ligands with higher hapticity Unique reactions in organometallic chemistry Ligand substitution reactions and fluxionality in organometallic compounds Metal clusters Homogenous catalysis using organometallic compounds Catalytic hydrogenation of alkenes and related reactions Hydroformylation Methanol, carbonylation and olefin oxidation: Monsanto, Cativa and Wacker processes Olefin metathesis Palladium catalysed C-C and C-N cross coupling reactions Olefin polymerisation and oligomerisation reactions Ferrocene: structure, bonding and reactions Organometallic polymers Bioorganometallic chemistry ER -