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 complexes (preparation, properties, stability), perfluoroalkyl complexes (preparation, properties, stability). Aryl complexes (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. Karbyne complexes (synthesis, structure). Complexes with unspecified pi-bond, olefin complexes (preparation, properties, reactivity, Wacker process), alkyne complexes (preparation, properties, alkyne as a bridging ligand, cyclooligomerization of alkynes). Aryne complexes. 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. Butadiene complexes (structure, preparation, reactivity). Pi-complexes of cyclic hydrocarbons (structure, aromaticity). Cyclopropenylium complexes (structure, preparation, bondig fashions of [C3R3]+ fragment). Cyclobutadienyl complexes (structure, preparation, Pettit's 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 pi-bonded heterocycles. 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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