Chemistry 652
- - - ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY - - - Spring 2007Instructor:
Prof. Klaus H. Theopold, 214 Lammot du Pont Lab phone: 1546
e-mail: theopold@udel.edu
Class Schedule:
Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:00 - 3:15 PM in ALS 322
Books
Required text: R. H. Crabtree, The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals, 4rd edition.
The following books provide more information and/or different viewpoints and may be found in the Library.
1. Collman, Hegedus, Norton, Finke; Principles and Applications of Organotransition
Metal Chemistry, 2nd edition.
2. Elschenbroich; Salzer; Organometallics, 2nd edition.
3. Kochi; Organometallic Mechanisms and Catalysis.
4. Parshall, Ittel; Homogeneous Catalysis, 2nd edition.
5. Atwood; Inorganic and Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms, 2nd edition.
6. Huheey; Keiter, and Keiter; Inorganic Chemistry, 4th edition
7. Cotton, Wilkinson; Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 6th edition.
Examinations/Homework:
Midterm (in class, on April 5).
A paper - in the form of a review - see below for details (due on May 8).
Comprehensive final (during finals week, date and time to be announced).
Grading:
Midterm 30 %
Paper 30 %
Final 40 %
Total: 100 %
Paper
Pick your favorite organometallic chemist i.e. somebody who has been contributing a substantial body of work to the field - (let me know who - first come, first serve!) Identify the 5 (+/-1) most significant papers (pertaining to organometallic chemistry) that person has published during his/her career; a citation analysis may be a good way to start on this!
Write a summary of your chemists contribution (5 - 10 pages, including figures), based on your close reading/analysis of these five most significant papers. This should include a description of the topic and the main results of the papers, as well as putting them into a larger context (i.e. other contributors in the area, current thinking) and any critical thoughts of yours.
Approximate Syllabus:
1 - Introduction: History, 18-electron rule, ligands
2 - Ligands contd, characterization & fluxionality
3 - Reductive Elimination/Oxidative Addition
4 - Migratory Insertion/Elimination
5 - Nucleophilic/Electrophilic attack on coordinated ligands
6 - Metal-carbon Multiple Bonds, Olefin Metathesis, ROMP
7 - CO-chemistry, hydroformylation, Fischer-Tropsch process, etc.
8 - Olefin-chemistry, isomerization, hydrogenation, polymerization
9 - oxidation, high-oxidation state organometallics, O2-activation.
10 - C-H activation
11 - Main group organometallics.
12 - Applications in organic synthesis
Resources: download key to Problem Set #1 download key to Problem Set #2 download Chem 652 Midterm of 2006 download key to Chem 652 Midterm of 2006 download key to Chem 652 Midterm of 2007 download key to Problem Set #3 download Chem 652 Final of 2006 download key to Chem 652 Final of 2006
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