Descrição
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface.
Preamble.
1 The Central Atom.
1.1 Key Concepts in Coordination Chemistry.
1.2 A Who’s Who of Metal Ions.
1.3 Metals in Molecules.
1.4 The Road Ahead.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
2 Ligands.
2.1 Membership: Being A Ligand.
2.2 Monodentate Ligands – The Simple Type.
2.3 Greed is Good – Polydentate Ligands.
2.4 Polynucleating Species – Molecular Bigamists.
2.5 A Separate Race — Organometallic Species.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
3 Complexes.
3.1 The Central Metal Ion.
3.2 Metal-Ligand Marriage.
3.3 Holding On — The Nature of Bonding in Metal Complexes.
3.4 Coupling – Polymetallic Complexes.
3.5 Making Choices.
3.6 Complexation Consequences.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
4 Shape.
4.1 Getting in Shape.
4.2 Forms of Complex Life.
4.3 Influencing Shape.
4.4 Isomerism – Real 3D Effects.
4.5 Sophisticated Shapes.
4.6 Defining Shape.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
5 Stability.
5.1 The Makings of a Stable Relationship.
5.2 Complexation – Will it Last?
5.3 Reactions.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
6 Synthesis.
6.1 Molecular Creation — Ways to Make Complexes.
6.2 Core Metal Chemistry — Periodic Table Influences.
6.3 Reactions Involving the Coordination Shell.
6.4 Reactions Involving the Metal Oxidation State.
6.5 Reactions Involving Coordinated.
6.6 Organometallic Synthesis.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
7 Properties.
7.1 Finding Ways to Make Complexes Talk — Investigative Methods.
7.2 Getting Physical — Methods and Outcomes.
7.3 Probing the Life of Complexes — Using Physical Methods.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
8 A Complex Life.
8.1 Life’s a Metal Ion.
8.2 Metalloproteins and Metalloenzymes.
8.3 Doing What Comes Unnaturally – Synthetic Biomolecules.
8.4 A Laboratory-free Approach — In Silico Prediction.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
9 Complexes and Commerce.
9.1 Kill or Cure? — Complexes as Drugs.
9.2 How Much? — Analysing with Complexes.
9.3 Profiting from Complexation.
9.4 Being Green.
9.5 Complex Futures.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
Appendix A Nomenclature.
Appendix B Molecular Symmetry: The Point Group.
Index.
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- ISBN-10 : 0470519312
- ISBN-13 : 9780470519318
