History of organometallic chemistry, ferrocene, Zeisse's salt, applicaton and variability of organotransition metal complexes, 18-electron rule, hapticity of Cp ligand, examples. Termodynamic stability vs kinetic lability, beta-elimination, blocking of free coordination sites, Bredt's rule, ligand without beta-hydrogens. Bonding in organotransiton metal complexes, MO schemes of metal-ligand interactions (alkyl, CO, multiple bonds, ethylene, dihydrogen). Phosphine ligand and its electronic and sterical properties, Tollman's angle, pi-acceptors, chiral phosphines, chelates. Other co-ligands (aryloxides, imides, calixarenes, silsesquioxanes, pyrazolylborates, cyclic polyenes, carbaboranes, pincer ligands). Alkyl coomplexes (preparation, properties, stability), perfluoroalkyl complexes (preparation, properties, stability). Alkyl coomplexes (preparation, properties, stability of sqare-shaped complexes, SNAr catalysed by palladium(0) complexes) Carbene complexes (Schrock, Fischer, preparation, properties, reactivity). Olefin metathesis, Tebbe's reagent. Isonitriles, cumulenylidenes. Kabribe complexes (synthesis, structure). Complexes with unspecified hapto-bond, olefin complexes (preparation, properties, reactivity, Wacker process), alkyne complexes (preparation, properties, alkyn as a bridging ligand, cyclooligomerization of alkynes). Allyl complexes (structure, synthesis, reactivity). Allyl intermediates in the industrial processes, nucleophilic substitution on the allyl compounds. Dienyl and trienyl complexes (preparation, structure). Rule of Davies-Mingos. Butadienyl complexes (structure, preparation, reactivity). Pi-complexes of cyclic hydrocarbons (structure, aromaticity). Cyclopropenyl complexes (structure, preparation, bondig fashions of [C3R3]+ fragment). Cyclobutadienyl complexes (structure, preparation, Pettit reagent). Metallocenes (MO scheme, structure, preparation, properties, reactivity). Application of metallocenes (catalysis, synthesis, physics, biology). Arene complexes (structure, preparation, properties), cocondensation. Tropylium ligand, COT complexes. Organometallic complexes of heterocyclic systems. Industrial catalysis by organotransition metal complexes (Fischer-Tropsch, hydroformylation, hydrogenation, isomerisation of olefines, alkene metathesis, Monsanto process, Wacker process, polymerization of olefines). Organotransition metal complexes in organic synthesis. C-H bond activation, C-C coupling (complexes of Cu, Cr, Co and Pd). Formation of C=C double bond (Ti, Cr, carbene complexes). Oxidation and reduction of organic substrates. Organometalic complexes of lanthanides and actinides (brief survey, preparation, properties, structure, application).
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