Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An integrated approach to organometallic chemistry, incorporating many new results. Provides historical background, and develops the subject from first principles to the latest developments. Topics include classification, nomenclature, nontransition- and transition-metal organometallics (preparation, properties, structures, and bonding), and fluxionality and applications. Includes critical analysis of the environmental aspects of main-group and transition-metal organometallic compounds. Contains many illustrative figures and charts.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Classification, Nomenclature and Characteristics of Organometallic Compound
• Organometallic Compounds of Main Group Elements
• Organometallic Compounds of Transition Metals
• Fluxional Organometallic Compounds (Structural Non-Rigidity)
• Synthetic and Catalytic Aspects of Organometallic Chemistry
• Biological Applications and Environmental Aspects of Organometallic Compounds
• Appendices
• Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

What would have otherwise been a creditable work in the well-established interdisciplinary field of organometallic chemistry is lacking. Apparently the requisite editorial control was not exercised. As a result, this book reads poorly uncomfortably and occasionally distractingly so. The use (or misuse) of English was annoying to this reviewer. However, most users, including this reviewer, will be tolerant, and most students, lost in the real and existential beauties of the chemistry, may be forgiving. The book is well conceived and well executed technically; it is scientifically accurate; and it sports two unique and outstanding features that separate it from other texts in the field, namely, extraordinary attention to practical applications, and historical perspectives. Applications range from catalytic and synthetic to biological and ecological; historical perspectives include great attention to the origins of ideas and development throughout, and an elegant touch inclusion of materials from several appropriate Nobel lectures. Such considerations will be appreciated by students and professors alike. Lead references are provided with each of the seven chapters: historical; classification and characteristics; main group; transition metals; fluxional compounds; synthesis and catalysis; biological and environmental. Recommended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and faculty, and workers in the field.-L. W. Fine, Columbia University