To learn a know how among the students on the application potential of coordination compounds in catalysis and to acquaint them with the promising future of organotransition metal chemistry in industrial, biological and environmental fields.
Types of transition metal to carbon bonds. Classification of organometallic compounds
based on hapticity and polarity of M-C bond. Nomenclature and general characteristics, Electron counting (16 and 18 electron rules)
Routes of synthesis for s-alkyls and aryls of transition metals, stability of organometallic compounds and decomposition pathways; organocopper in organic synthesis.
Preparation, properties, structure and bonding of -carbene and carbyne complexes( both Fischer and Schrock types), nucleophilic and electrophilic reactions on the ligands, role in organic synthesis.
Preparation properties, structure and bonding of h4- diene complexes, h5- dienyl complexes, h6- arene & triene complexes( nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution), fluxionality and dynamic equilibria in such as h2- olefin, h3- allyl and h5-dienyl complexes.
Principles and Important Reactions of Transition Metal Organometallics: Co-ordinative unsaturation oxidative addition, insertion and product isolation (reductive elimination and β- elimination).
Homogeneous catalysis: Hydrogenation of alkenes, hydrosilylation of alkenes, metathesis of alkenes, oligomerization and polymerization of alkenes and alkynes, hydroformylation of alkenes, acetic acid synthesis and other carbonylation reactions, oxidation reactions of alkenes.
Heterogeneous catalysis: Fischer Tropsch process- Methanation reaction, synthesis of methanol, gasoline production, water gas shift reaction, role of Zno/Cr2O3 in the reaction, acetic acid synthesis, role of CO catalyst.
Metal carbonyls: preparation, properties, structure and bonding with special reference to dinuclear and polynuclear carbonyls; vibrational spectra of metal carbonyls (bridging and terminal) for bonding and structural elucidation, dinitrogen and dioxygen complexes; metal carbonyl clusters.