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154a Organometallic Chemistry
Winter 2008
Instructor
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Jay A. Labinger
Office: 405 Beckman Institute
Extension: 6520
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TA
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George Chen
Office: 204 Noyes
Extension: 6576
Office Hours: Wed. 5:30-6:30 pm
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Lectures
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00-10:30 am, 132 Noyes
Text
There is no assigned text; several general texts are included among the books on reserve for this course on the 8th floor of Millikan. See list and comments below.
Grading
| Homework
assignments |
25% |
| Paper |
20% |
| Midterm exam |
25% |
| Final exam |
30% |
Problem sets will be assigned every 1-2 weeks; they will be due before the start of class on the assigned day. They may be turned in class or to the mailbox for the course (Noyes mailboxes). Solutions will be posted on the bulletin board facing the elevator on the 2nd floor of Noyes.
Late penalty: 1 day, 50% off; 2 days, 75% off; more than 2 days, no credit. Collaboration is permitted, but each collaborator is expected to work all problems.
A Note on Supplemental Reading
The most popular organometallic chemistry textbooks are:
Crabtree: The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals, 4th Edition (2005)
Collman, Hegedus, Norton & Finke: Principles and Applications of Organotransition Metal Chemistry, 2 nd Edition (1987)
Spessard and Miessler: Organometallic Chemistry (1997)
Of these Collman et al would probably be the most useful as a reference source, if it weren't seriously out of date. Crabtree takes more of an overview approach; and Spessard & Miessler is somewhere in between. New editions of both Collman and S&M are currently in production and will probably be out sometime this year, so I can't (in good conscience, considering the pricing) urge you to buy one of the older versions now. Copies of each are on reserve on the 8 th floor of Millikan. (If you do want to buy something now, you can probably find a used copy and/or a discounted new copy online, at Amazon or some such site.)
Also on the 8 th floor reserve shelf are the following useful references, which include additional general texts as well as monographs on particular topics. (Note that some of these are pretty badly out of date too!) The best reference source is Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, which consists of three multivolume sets (published in 1982, 1995 and 2007 respectively) that survey the literature fairly exhaustively, organized both by metal as well as by special topics; these are available on the reference shelves on the 8 th floor of Millikan.
Albert and Yates: The Surface Scientist's Guide to Organometallic Chemistry (1987)
Atwood: Inorganic and Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms, 2 nd Edition (1997)
Coates: Organometallic Compounds (several volumes, covering main group as well as transition metals, all rather dated)
Davies: Organotransition Metal Chemistry: Applications to Organic Synthesis (1982)
Elschenbroich and Saltier: Organometallics: A Concise Introduction, 2nd Revised Edition (1992)
Heck: Organotransition Metal Chemistry (1974)
Kegley and Pinhas: Problems and Solutions in Organometallic Chemistry (1986)
Kochi: Organometallic Mechanisms and Catalysis (1978)
Lukehart: Fundamental Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry (1985)
Masters: Homogeneous Transition Metal Catalysis (1981)
Nugent and Mayer: Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds (1988)
Parshall and Ittel: Homogeneous Catalysis: The Applications and Chemistry of Catalysis by Soluble Transition Metal Complexes, 2nd Edition (1992)
Pearson: Metallo-organic Chemistry (1985)
Wayda and Darensbourg: Experimental Organometallic Chemistry (1987)
Yamamoto: Organotransition Metal Chemistry (1986)
