Introduction to Organometallic Chemistry

Lecture 1 - Introduction to Organometallic chemistry

Lecture 2 - Metal carbonyl complexes

Lecture 3 - Metal carbonyls - Part II

Lecture 4 - Ligand substitution reactions

Lecture 5 - Substitutes for carbonyl ligands

Lecture 6 - Carbene complexes

Lecture 7 - Carbene complexes (Continued...)

Lecture 8 - Non-Carbon Ancillary ligands

Lecture 9 - Non-Carbon Ancillary ligands (Continued...)

Lecture 10 - Metal alkyl complexes

Lecture 11 - Ligand Insertion Reactions

Lecture 12 - Metal alkene complexes

Lecture 13 - Alkynes ?2 bonding

Lecture 14 - Metal dihydrogen and hydrides

Lecture 15 - Migratory Insertion reaction with alkynes

Lecture 16 - ηm (m=4 dienes and m=2n,polyenes)

Lecture 17 - Oxidative addition & Vaskas complex mechanism

Lecture 18 - Reductive elimination

Lecture 19 - Reductive Elimination mechanism

Lecture 20 - Oxidative coupling with C-C bond formation

Lecture 21 - Metathesis reactions

Lecture 22 - Metal-allyls - ? 3 complexes-synthesis, bonding

Lecture 23 - Metal-allyls - η 3 complexes-fluxionality, reactivity

Lecture 24 - C-C single bond forming reactions

Lecture 25 - ? 5 Cyclopentadienyl - complexes

Lecture 26 - η6 arene Metal complexes

Lecture 27 - Half sandwich complexes

Lecture 28 - Reactivity changes in coordinated ligands

Lecture 29 - The isolobal analogy

Lecture 30 - Fluxional Properties of Organometallics

Lecture 31 - Quantifying Steric and electronic factors

Lecture 32 - Hydrogenation reactions

Lecture 33 - Addition of HX to olefins

Lecture 34 - Reactions with CO insertion

Lecture 35 - Organometallics promoted C-X coupling

Lecture 36 - Organometallic polymerization

Lecture 37 - C-H activation

Lecture 38 - Asymmetric Catalysis

Lecture 39 - Medicinal applications of organometallic complexes

Lecture 40 - Special Properties and Applications