Inorganometallic Chemistry

ISBN-13: 9781489924612 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 401 str.

Thomas P. Fehlner

Opis

There is a certain fascination associated with words. The manipulation of strings of symbols according to mutually accepted rules allows a language to express history as well as to formulate challenges for the future. But language changes as old words are used in a new context and new words are created to describe changing situations. How many words has the computer revolution alone added to languages? "Inorganometallic" is a word you probably have never encountered before. It is one created from old words to express a new presence. A strange sounding word, it is also a term fraught with internal contradiction caused by the accepted meanings of its constituent parts. "In- organic" is the name of a discipline of chemistry while "metallic" refers to a set of elements constituting a subsection of that discipline. Why then this Carrollian approach to entitling a set of serious academic papers? Organic, the acknowledged doyenne of chemistry, is distinguished from her brother, inorganic, by the prefix "in," i. e., he gets everything not organic. Organometallic refers to compounds with carbon-metal bonds. It is simple Inorganometallic is everything else, i. e., compounds with noncarbon-metal element bonds. But why a new term? Is not inorganic sufficient? By virtue of training, limited time, resources, co-workers, and so on, chemists tend to work on a specific element class, on a particular compound type, or in a particular phase. Thus, one finds element-oriented chemists (e. g.

Spis treści

Introduction; T.P. Fehlner. Main Group Fragments as Ligands to Transition Metals; T.P. Fehlner. Transition Metals and Main Group Cluster Compounds; C.E. Housecroft. Bonding Connections and Interrelationships; D.M.P. Mingos. Experimental Comparison of the Bonding in Inorganometallic and Organometallic Complexes by Photoelectric Spectroscopy; D.L. Lichtenberger, et al. Transition Metal Promoted Reactions of Main Group Species and Main Group Promoted Reactions of Transition Metal Species; R.N. Grimero. The Metal Non-metal Bond in the Solid State; T. Hughbanks. Molecular Precursors to Thin Films; M.L. Steigerwald. Ceramics; R.T. Paine. Index.