Reaction Mechanisms of Metal Complexes

R W Hay

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN: 9781898563419
• eBook ISBN: 9781782420637
• Topic: Technik & Maschinenbau
• Subtopic: Bergbautechnik

This text provides a general background as a course module in the area of inorganic reaction mechanisms, suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate study and/or research. The topic has important research applications in the metallurgical industry and is of interest in the science of biochemistry, biology, organic, inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. In addition to coverage of substitution reactions in four-, five- and six-coordinate complexes, the book contains further chapters devoted to isomerization and racemization reactions, to the general field of redox reactions, and to the reactions of coordinated ligands. It is relevant in other fields such as organic, bioinorganic and biological chemistry, providing a bridge to organic reaction mechanisms. The book also contains a chapter on the kinetic background to the subject with many illustrative examples which should prove useful to those beginning research. - Provides a general background as a course module in the area of inorganic reaction mechanisms, which has important research applications in the metallurgical industry - Contains further chapters devoted to isomerization and racemization reactions, to the general field of redox reactions, and to the reactions of coordinated ligands

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Introduction

Publisher Summary

This chapter explains that inorganic chemistry has tended to lag behind organic chemistry in the determination of reaction mechanisms. The foundations and concepts of the mechanisms of reactions in solution were laid down between 1920 and 1945 and applied almost solely to the reactions of tetrahedral and planar carbon centers in organic compounds. Organic chemistry in the 1920s period was ripe for the investigation of reaction mechanism. The situation in the inorganic area was less satisfactory. There was no background of systematized reactions and planned synthetic pathways. Preparative inorganic chemistry was a rather haphazard and intuitive discipline. In addition, the view was widely held that virtually all inorganic reactions were either very rapid or unselective. The products were determined by thermodynamic and solubility considerations, unlike those of organic reactions that were normally determined by kinetic and hence mechanistic factors. The few published studies of inorganic reactions in solution were initially motivated by problems somewhat removed from mechanism such as the study of salt effects, optical rotatory dispersion, stereochemical change, and the application of new or unusual methods to the study of reaction rates.

Inorganic chemistry has tended to lag behind organic chemistry in the determination of reaction mechanisms. The foundations and concepts of the mechanisms of reactions in solution were laid down between 1920 and 1945 and applied almost solely to the reactions of tetrahedral and planar carbon centres in organic compounds. It is not difficult to understand why carbon should be the first reaction centre to be studied in such detail,

(a) Organic compounds often undergo reaction at one centre, w...

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• DEDICATION
• Horwood Publishing Series in Chemical Science
• Copyright
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Kinetic Background
• Chapter 3: Substitution Reactions of Octahedral Complexes
• Chapter 4: Substitution Reactions in Four- and Five-Coordinate Complexes
• Chapter 5: Isomerisation and Racemisation Reactions
• Chapter 6: Electron Transfer Reactions
• Chapter 7: Reactions of Coordinated Ligands
• Index