Ligands reactivity

This book is a highly readable introduction to the reactions of coordinated ligands. Bridging the gap between the traditional fields, this text presents the basic concepts of ligand reactivity as well as many synthetic applications of these reactions. 

E.C. Constable, Metals and Ligand Reactivity, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1990... 

Jones, M. M., Ligand Reactivity and Catalysis, Academic Press, New York, 1968. 

Chemisorption Adsorbate Orientation Competitive Chemisorption Adsorbate Exchange Adsorbate Reactivity Electrocatalvsis Synthesis Mode of Coordination Ligand Substitution Ligand Exchange Ligand Reactivity Homoqeneous Catalysis... 

Constable, E.C. (1996) Metals and Ligand Reactivity, Chapter 1, VCH, Weinheim, pp. 1—21. Cotton, F.A. and Wilkinson, G. (1980) Advanced Inorganic Chemistry A Comprehensive Text, 4th edition, Wiley, New York, Chichester, 1396 pp. 

Finally, I would like to comment briefly on the effect of the metal on ligand reactivity. In a number of instances chelate rings in the trisacetylacetonates of rhodium(III), cobalt(III), and chromium(III) undergo electrophilic substitutions at different rates. The relative reactivity of these complexes is chromium > cobalt rhodium. Thus far our data are only qualitative. 

A number of studies have been carried out on the ligand reactivities of the metal complexes of Schiff bases derived from amino acid esters and carbonyl compounds. Ester exchange reactions were first reported by Pfeiffer et a/.492 and extended by other investigators.493 496... 

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