Inorganometallic Chemistry

1992
ISBN: 978-0-306-43986-5
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 401 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1740 g

Reihe: Modern Inorganic Chemistry

There is a certain fascination associated with words. The manipulation of strings of symbols according to mutually accepted rules allows a language to express history as well as to formulate challenges for the future. But language changes as old words are used in a new context and new words are created to describe changing situations. How many words has the computer revolution alone added to languages? "Inorganometallic" is a word you probably have never encountered before. It is one created from old words to express a new presence. A strange sounding word, it is also a term fraught with internal contradiction caused by the accepted meanings of its constituent parts. "In­ organic" is the name of a discipline of chemistry while "metallic" refers to a set of elements constituting a subsection of that discipline. Why then this Carrollian approach to entitling a set of serious academic papers? Organic, the acknowledged doyenne of chemistry, is distinguished from her brother, inorganic, by the prefix "in," i. e., he gets everything not organic. Organometallic refers to compounds with carbon-metal bonds. It is simple! Inorganometallic is everything else, i. e., compounds with noncarbon-metal element bonds. But why a new term? Is not inorganic sufficient? By virtue of training, limited time, resources, co-workers, and so on, chemists tend to work on a specific element class, on a particular compound type, or in a particular phase. Thus, one finds element-oriented chemists (e. g.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fehlner, Thomas P.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Anorganische Chemie Nichtmetallische Chemie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Anorganische Chemie Festkörperchemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Werkstoffkunde, Materialwissenschaft: Forschungsmethoden
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Werkstoffprüfung
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Anorganische Chemie Komplexchemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Main Group Fragments as Ligands to Transition Metals.- 3. Transition Metal-Main Group Cluster Compounds.- 4. Bonding Connections and Interrelationships.- 5. Experimental Comparison of the Bonding in Inorganometallic and Organometallic Complexes by Photoelectron Spectroscopy.- 6. Transition Metal-Promoted Reactions of Main Group Species and Main Group-Promoted Reactions of Transition Metal Species.- 7. The Metal-Nonmetal Bond in the Solid State.- 8. Molecular Precursors to Thin Films.- 9. Ceramics.