Since the discovery of ferrocene and the sandwich-type complexes, the development of organometallic chemistry took its course like an avalanche and became one of the scientific success stories of the second half of the twentieth century. Based on this development, the traditional boundaries between inorganic and organic chemistry gradually disappeared and a rebirth of the nowadays highly important field of homogeneous catalysis occurred. It is fair to say that despite the fact that the key discovery, which sparked it all off, was made morethan 50 years ago, organometallic chemistry remains a young and lively discipline First presentation of the significant contributions of Fischer and Wernerto inorganic chemistry INDICE: Prologue.- A Biographical Sketch.- The Nineteenth Century: It is all but a Sequence of Accidental Discoveries.- Transition Metal Carbonyls: FromSmall Molecules to Giant Clusters.- A Scientific Revolution: The Discovery ofthe Sandwich Complexes.- One Deck More: The Chemical Big Mac.- The Binding ofEthene and its Congeners: Prototypical Metal p -Complexes.- Metal Carbenes and Carbynes: The Taming of ‘Non-existent’ Molecules.- Metal Alkyls and Metal Aryls: It is the Ligands that Count.- From Roelen, Reppe and Ziegler to the Present-Day Heroes: Organometallics in Industry.- Transcending the Boundaries: Organometallics for Organic Synthesis.- Introducing Chirality: A Breakthrough in Homogeneous Catalysis.- Organometallics and the Future: Does it Remain an Adventure?- Epilogue.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-09847-0
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 300
- Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés