Amides of the Transition Metals

A key objective on our part was to complement material that had already been reviewed as well as to provide an overview of the key developments. Several reviews and commen-taries have appeared since the 1980 book and almost half of these have been published since 2000. These have dealt with, either fully or in part, derivatives of specific types of amido and related ligands, the applications of amido substituted complexes in chemical transformations, and the use of amido complexes as precursors for electronic materials or catalysis. The increasing interest in the use of multidentate amido and similar ligands of various types, which had been a notable development of mainstream amide chemistry since 1980, has resulted in the largest numbers of reviews. These cover ligands such as 

Metal Amide Chemistry Michael Lappert, Andrey Protchenko, Philip Power and Alexandra Seeber 

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