Organotransition Metal Chemistry

Paper Code: 
CHY- 322
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Objective: 

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.

8.00
Unit I: 
Alkyls and Aryls of Transition Metals

Types, routes of synthesis, stability of organometallic compounds and decomposition pathways; organocopper in organic synthesis, transition metal compound with bonds to hydrogen.

10.00
Unit II: 
Metal-Carbon Multiple bonded organometallics

Preparation, properties, structure and bonding of -carbene and carbyne complexes( both Fischer and Schrock types) , h2- alkene and alkyne complexes, h3- allyl complexes, fluxionality and dynamic equilibria in compounds such as h2- olefin and h3- allyl complexes.

10.00
Unit III: 
π-Bonded Organometallics

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 dienyl complexes.

8.00
Unit IV: 
Principles and Important Reactions of Transition Metal Organometallics

Co-ordinative unsaturation; oxidative addition, C-H bond activation; reductive elimination; insertion; reactions on co-ordinated ligands.

9.00
Unit V: 
Catalysis by Organotransition Metal Complexes

Pre requisite: Classification, nomenclature and general characteristics of organometallic compounds.

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.

References: 
  1. Organometallic Chemistry: A Unified Approach; Second Edition;  R.C. Mehrotra and A.Singh; New Age International Private Limited, New Delhi, 2005.
  2. Inorganic Chemistry; Third Edition; Gary L. Miessler and Donald A. Tarr; Pearson Education Inc. Singapore, 2005.
  3. Inorganic Chemistry, Principles of Structure and Reactivity; Fourth Edition; J.E. Hueey, E.A. Keiter and R.L. Keiter; Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, New York, 1993.
  4. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Fifth Edition; F.A. Cotton and G. Wilkinson; John Wiley and Sons, USA, New York, 1988.
  5. Concepts and Models of Inorganic Chemistry; Third Edition Bodie Douglas, Darl McDaniel, John Alexander; John Wiley and Sons, Singapore, 2001.
Academic Year: 
2014-2015
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