529-0132-AAL Inorganic Chemistry III: Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2021 |
| Lecturers | C. Copéret, A. Togni |
| Periodicity | every semester recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Comment | Enrolment ONLY for MSc students with a decree declaring this course unit as an additional admission requirement. Any other students (e.g. incoming exchange students, doctoral students) CANNOT enrol for this course unit. This course does not offer a lecture of its own but it is linked to the course 529-0132-00L. |
| Abstract | Fundamental aspects of the organometallic chemistry of the transition elements. Mechanistic homogeneous catalysis including oxidative additions, reductive eliminations and insertion reactions. Catalytic hydrogenation, carbonylation, C-C bond-forming and related reactions. | ||||||||||||
| Learning objective | Towards an understanding of the fundamental coordination-chemical and mechanistic aspects of transition-metal chemistry relevant to homogeneous catalysis. | ||||||||||||
| Content | Fundamental aspects of the organometallic chemistry ot the transition elements. Mechanistic homogeneous catalysis including oxidative additions, reductive eliminations and insertion reactions. Catalytic hydrogenation, carbonylation, C-C bond-forming and related reactions. | ||||||||||||
| Literature | 1) Robert H. Crabtree, The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals, 6th Edition, Wiley, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-118-13807-6. A relatively concise but excellent introduction to organometallic chemistry. Strong textbook character, available as E-book 2) John F. Hartwig, Organotransition Metal Chemistry. From Bonding to Catalysis, University Science Books, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-891389-53-5. A more comprehensive standard work on organometallic chemistry. Several chapters written by various authors, partly specialized review-article style. 3) Organometallics, 3rd, Completely Revised and Extended Edition Christoph Elschenbroich - Wiley 2006 ISBN: 978-3-527-29390-2 | ||||||||||||
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