Unusual Structures and Physical Properties in Organometallic Chemistry

Marcel Gielen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BelgiumProfessor Gielen is the author of several organometallic books and editor of the journals Main Group Metal Chemistry and Applied Organometallic Chemistry.Rudolph Willem, Free University of Brussels, Belgium. Member of the Editorial Board on the journal, Applied Organometallic Chemistry.Bernd Wrackmeyer, Universitat Bayreuth, Germany. Member of the Editorial Board on the journal, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry.

• Contributors. Series Preface. Preface. 1. Structure and Electrochemistry of Transition Metal Carbonyl Clusters with Interstitial or Semi-Interstitial Atoms: Contrast between Nitrides or Phosphides and Carbides (Piero Zanello). 2. Unusual Nuclear Magnetic Shielding and Coupling Constants Related to Unusual Bonding Situations (Bernd Wrackmeyer). 3. Deuterium Spin-Lattice Relaxation and Deuterium Quadrupole Coupling Constants. A Novel Strategy for Characterization of Transition Metal Hydrides and Dihydrogen Complexes in Solution (Vladimir I. Bakhmutov). 4. NMR Studies of Ligand Nuclei in Organometallic Compounds--New Information from Solid-State NMR Techniques (Guy M. Bernard and Roderick E. Wasylishen). 5. Metal Atom Motion in Some Iron Organometallics (Rolfe H. Herber). 6. Magnetic Communication in Binuclear Organometallic Complexes Mediated by Carbon-Rich Bridges (Frédéric Paul and Claude Lapinte). 7. Molecular Cluster Complexes with Facial Arene Ligands (Herbert Wadepohl). 8. Cobaltafulvenes and Cobaltapentalenes: Highly Polar Metallacyclic II-Systems with Unusual Properties (Herbert Wadepohl). 9. Novel Highly Nucleophilic Ylidic Ligands for the Preparation of Unusually Stable Metal Complexes (Norbert Kuhn, Martin Göhner, Gernot Frenking and Yu Chen). 10. Supramolecular Interactions in Structures of Organic Antimony and Bismuth Compounds (Gabor Balázs and Hans Joachim Breunig). Index.

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