Advances in Organometallic Chemistry: Multiply Bonded Main Group Metals and Metalloids

This widely acclaimed serial contains authoritative reviews that address all aspects of organometallic chemistry, a field which has expanded enormously since the publication of Volume 1 in 1964. Almost all branchesof chemistry now interface with organometallic chemistry--the study of compounds containing carbon–metal bonds. Organometallic compounds range from species which are so reactive that they only have a transient existence at ambient temperatures to species which are thermally very stable. Organometallics are used extensively in the synthesis of useful compounds on both large and small scales. Industrial processes involving plastics, polymers, electronic materials, and pharmaceuticals all depend on advancements in organometallic chemistry.

In basic research, organometallics have contributed inter alia to:

P.J. Brothers and P.P. Power, Multiple Bonding Involving the Heavier Main Group 3 Elements Al, Ga, In, and Tl. A.G. Brook and M.A. Brook, The Chemistry of Silenes. I. Hemme and U. Klingebiel, Iminosilanes andRelated Compounds--Synthesis and Reactions. M. Driess, Silicon–Phosphorus and Silicon–Arsenic Multiple Bonds. R. Okazaki and R. West, Chemistry of Stable Disilenes. K.M. Baines and W.G. Stibbs, Stable Doubly Bonded Compounds ofGermanium and Tin. A.J. Ashe, III, and S. Al-Ahmad, Diheteroferrocenes and Related Derivatives of the Group 15 Elements: Arsenic, Antimony, and Bismuth. J.J. Eisch, Boron–Carbon Multiple Bonds. Chapter References. Subject Index. Cumulative List of Contributors 1–36. Cumulative Index 37–39.