Beschreibung
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue.- A Biographical Sketch.- The Nineteenth Century: It is all but 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 Big Mac.- The Binding of Ethene and its Congeners: Prototypical Metal p -Complexes.- Metal Carbenes and Carbynes: The Taming of a¿oeNon-existenta¿ 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.
Autorenporträt
InhaltsangabePrologue.- 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 “Big Mac”.- The Binding of Ethene and Its Congeners: Prototypical Metal π-Complexes.- Metal Carbenes and Carbynes: The Taming of “Non-existing” Molecules.- Metal Alkyls and Metal Aryls: The “True” Transition Organometallics.- Epilogue.