Organometallic Chemistry

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  h^5-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.