General Properties of Organometallic Complexes; Metal Alkyls, Aryls, and Hydrides and Related sigma-Bonded Ligands; Carbonyls, Phosphine Complexes, and Ligand Substitution Reactions; Complexes of PI-Bound Ligands; Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination; Insertion and Elimination; Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Addition and Abstraction; Homogeneous Catalysis; Physical Methods in Organometallic Chemistry; Carbenes, Metathesis, and Polymerization; Applications of Organometallic Chemistry; Clusters and the Metal-Metal Bond; Applications to Organic Synthesis; Oxidation and High-Oxidation-State Complexes; Bioorganometallic Chemistry; Useful Texts on Allied Topics; Major Reaction Types; Solutions to Problems; Index.
ROBERT H. CRABTREE, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Yale University.
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