Perspectives in Coordination Chemistry
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Alan F. Williams, Carlo Floriani, André E. Merbach (Eds.)

Perspectives in Coordination Chemistry

 

 

 

 

ISBN: 3-527-28487-7
Hardcover
486 pages
1998

Description

In the hundred years since Alfred Werner proposed his theory of co-ordination compounds, co-ordination chemistry has grown to occupy a central position in chemical science. This book contains a selection of essays illustrating the state of the subject as its enters its second century. In addition to methods of synthesizing, studies of structure and reactivity, particular attention is paid to the applications of co-ordination chemistry in fields as varied as biochemistry and medicine, organometallic chemistry, solid state chemistry, catalysis, and molecular receptors and devices.
 

Index

  1. Contributions of Structural Chemistry to the Understanding of Chemical Reactivity

  2. High-Affinity Ligands for the Complexation of Metal Cations and Molecules

  3. Elucidation of Reaction Pathways through Volume Profile Analysis

  4. Molecular Clusters and Ligands: a Powerful Interplay

  5. Clusters, Chains, and Layered Molecules: the Chemist's Way to Magnetic Materials

  6. Design of Ligands with Neutral Oxygen Donors: The Basis of Metal Ion Size-Based Selectivity

  7. 'Complexes as Metals' and 'Complexes as Ligands': Synthetic Strategies to Design Supramolecular Compounds Featuring Made-to-Order Luminescent and Redox Properties

  8. The Crystal Engineering of Non-Molecular Metal Compounds with Anionic Calcogenide Ligands E2– and RE

  9. High-Resolution Optical Spectroscopy of Coordination Compounds

  10. From Crowns to Clefts: Synthetic Analogues for Type 3 Copper Centres

  11. Coordination Chemistry in the Solid State: Cluster and Condensed Halides of the Early Transition Metals

  12. Intermediate Complexes in Chemical and Biological Nitrogen Fixation

  13. Towards an Understanding of the Electronic Structure of Fe4S4 High-Potential Iron-Sulfur Proteins

  14. Synthetic and Mechanistic Aspects of Exchange of Cyclometallated Ligands in Palladium and Platinum(II) Complexes

  15. Structure, Composition, and Properties of High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors

  16. The Delta Bond - An Old Story with a New Twist

  17. Preorganization of the Second Coordination Sphere

  18. The Role of Solvents in Coordination Chemical Phenomena

  19. Coordination Compounds and Genes

  20. Transition Metal Acyl, Iminoacyl Chemistry. Observation of Some Unusual Rearrangements in Mo and W Complexes

  21. Hydration of Ions and Neutron Scattering

  22. From Coordination Chemistry to Supramolecular Chemistry

  23. Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydrogen-Transfer Reactions and Their Application to Oxidation of Alcohols and Reduction of Ketones and Imines

 

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A selection of essays illustrating the state of coordination compounds in coordination chemistry. In addition to methods of synthesis, studies of structure and reactivity, particular attention is paid to the application of coordination chemistry in fields as varied as biochemistry and medicine, organometallic chemistry, sold state chemistry, catalysis, and molecular receptors and devices. Contains a chapter by Nobel Laureate, Jean-Marie Lehn. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.