Download or read book Organometallics written by Manfred Bochmann and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This succinct text presents an accessible account of the main classes of transition metal organometallic complexes and introduces the reader to the chemistry of compounds with metal carbon O bonds: metal carbonyls, metal alkyls, and metal alkylidenes and alkylidynes. The synthetic methods leading to each class of comounds are illustrated with pertinent examples, followed by the discussion of characterisitic structures and reactivity patterns. The systematic approach will provide undergraduate readers with a concise overview of this area of inorganic chemistry.