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COORDINATION CHEMISTRY

Fred Basola and Ronald C. Johnson

ISBN 0-905927-47-8 144pp £15/$30

Preface to the Second Edition

This second edition of Coordination Chemistry continues to be a basic presentation of this subject. It has been updated to cover a host of interesting new areas in which the ideas of coordination chemistry have impact. It includes a new last chapter which introduces organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis and the rapidly expanding studies of metal ions in living systems and solids.

Coordination Chemistry is primarily concerned with metal complexes but many of its concepts are applicable to chemistry in general. Students just starting to study chemistry, therefore, will profit from an appreciation and understanding of the basic principles of coordination chemistry, which may be applied in more sophisticated fashion in advanced courses.

Although textbooks of general chemistry usually contain brief teatments of metal complexes and coordination chemistry, their limited space precludes the discussion of many important aspects of the subject. This being so, this book was written to more adequately present this subject to persons with a limited chemistry background. We believe it is appropriate for use by students who have had at least a year of high school chemistry. It would serve well as a supplement to introductory college chemistry courses, as part of the context of the second year of a high school chemistry course, as the subject of a special chemistry seminar, or as an introduction or review for graduate students, health professionals, or others who plan to do work which involves metal ions and complexes.

The authors are grateful for the many helpful comments from readers of the first edition of this book and would appreciate suggestions and reports of student reaction toward this edition. We wish to thank Dr S. A. Johnson who read the entire manuscript and made many helpful suggestions. One of us (F. B.) wishes to thank Dr V. Caglioti and the people in his Institute at the University of Rome, where part of the original writing of this book was done, for their generous help and hospitality.

Fred Basolo Evanston, Illinois Ronald C. Johnson Atlanta, Georgia

1.Introduction and Historical Development
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Historical development
1.3 Nomenclature
Problems

2 The Coordinate Bond
2.1 The electron-pair bond
2.2 Electronic structure of the atom
2.3 The concept of effective atomic number
2.4 Valence bond theory
2.5 Crystal field theory
2.6 Molecular orbital theory
Problems

3. Stereochemistry
3.1 Geometry of coordination compounds
3.2 Complexes with unusual structural features
3.3 Isomerism in metal complexes
Problems

4. Preparations and Reactions of Coordination Compounds
4.1 Substitution reactions in aqueous solution
4.2 Substitution reactions in nonaqueous solvents
4.3 Substitution reactions in the absence of solvents
4.4 Thermal dissociation of solid complexes
4.5 Photochemical synthesis
4.6 Oxidation-reduction reactions
4.7 Catalysis
4.8 Substitution reactions without metal-ligand bond cleavage
4.9 Trans effect
4.10 Synthesis of cis-trans isomers
4.11 Preparation of optically-active compounds
Problems

5. Complex Ion Stability
5.1 Stability constants
5.2 Factors that influence complex stability
5.3 Stabilization of unusual oxidation states by coordination
5.4 Determination of stability constants
Problems

6. Kinetics and Mechanisms of Reactions of Coordination Compounds
6.1 Rate of a reaction
6.2 The rate law
6.3 Effective collisions
6.4 Inert and labile complexes
6.5 Mechanisms of substitution reactions
6.6 Octahedral substitution reactions
6.7 Square planar substitution
6.8 Mechanisms for redox reactions
Problems

7. Organometallic Chemistry and Current Research Topics
7.1 Preparation of metal carbonyls and organometallic compounds
7.2 Organometallic reactions and homogeneous catalysis
7.3 Metals in living systems
7.4 Solid state chemistry
Problems

Index of Complexes
Index

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