Short description Introduction to Coordination Chemistry examines and explains how metals and molecules that bind as ligands interact, and the consequences of this assembly process. This book describes the chemical and physical properties and behavior of the complex assemblies that form, and applications that may arise as a result of these properties. Coordination complexes are an important but often hidden part of our world-even part of us-and what they do is probed in this book. This book distills the essence of this topic for undergraduate students and for research scientists.
From the contents Preface.
Preamble.
1 The Central Atom.
1.1 Key Concepts in Coordination Chemistry.
1.2 A Who's Who of Metal Ions.
1.3 Metals in Molecules.
1.4 The Road Ahead.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
2 Ligands.
2.1 Membership: Being A Ligand.
2.2 Monodentate Ligands - The Simple Type.
2.3 Greed is Good - Polydentate Ligands.
2.4 Polynucleating Species - Molecular Bigamists.
2.5 A Separate Race -- Organometallic Species.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
3 Complexes.
3.1 The Central Metal Ion.
3.2 Metal-Ligand Marriage.
3.3 Holding On -- The Nature of Bonding in Metal Complexes.
3.4 Coupling - Polymetallic Complexes.
3.5 Making Choices.
3.6 Complexation Consequences.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
4 Shape.
4.1 Getting in Shape.
4.2 Forms of Complex Life.
4.3 Influencing Shape.
4.4 Isomerism - Real 3D Effects.
4.5 Sophisticated Shapes.
4.6 Defining Shape.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
5 Stability.
5.1 The Makings of a Stable Relationship.
5.2 Complexation - Will it Last?
5.3 Reactions.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
6 Synthesis.
6.1 Molecular Creation -- Ways to Make Complexes.
6.2 Core Metal Chemistry -- Periodic Table Influences.
6.3 Reactions Involving the Coordination Shell.
6.4 Reactions Involving the Metal Oxidation State.
6.5 Reactions Involving Coordinated.
6.6 Organometallic Synthesis.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
7 Properties.
7.1 Finding Ways to Make Complexes Talk -- Investigative Methods.
7.2 Getting Physical -- Methods and Outcomes.
7.3 Probing the Life of Complexes -- Using Physical Methods.
Concept Keys.
Further Reading.
8 A Complex Life.
8.1 Life's a Metal Ion.
8.2 Metalloproteins and Metalloenzymes.
8.3 Doing What Comes Unnaturally - Synthetic Biomolecules.
8.4 A Laboratory-free Approach -- In Silico Prediction.
