Introduction to Coordination Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry: A Textbook Series
1. Auflage Dezember 2009
306 Seiten, Softcover
Lehrbuch
Kurzbeschreibung
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.
At the heart of coordination chemistry lies the coordinate bond, in its simplest sense arising from donation of a pair of electrons from a donor atom to an empty orbital on a central metalloid or metal. Metals overwhelmingly exist as their cations, but these are rarely met 'naked' - they are clothed in an array of other atoms, molecules or ions that involve coordinate covalent bonds (hence the name coordination compounds). These metal ion complexes are ubiquitous in nature, and are central to an array of natural and synthetic reactions.
Written in a highly readable, descriptive and accessible style Introduction to Coordination Chemistry describes properties of coordination compounds such as colour, magnetism and reactivity as well as the logic in their assembly and nomenclature. It is illustrated with many examples of the importance of coordination chemistry in real life, and includes extensive references and a bibliography.
Introduction to Coordination Chemistry is a comprehensive and insightful discussion of one of the primary fields of study in Inorganic Chemistry for both undergraduate and non-specialist readers.
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
8.4 A Laboratory-free Approach -- In Silico Prediction
Concept Keys
Further Reading
9 Complexes and Commerce
9.1 Kill or Cure? -- Complexes as Drugs
9.2 How Much? -- Analysing with Complexes
9.3 Profiting from Complexation
9.4 Being Green
9.5 Complex Futures
Concept Keys
Further Reading
Appendix One Nomenclature
Appendix Two Molecular Symmetry: The Point Group
Index
