Organometallic and Inorganic Molecules

Balzani, V. El tron Transfer in Chentistry Organic, Organometallic, and Inorganic Molecules Wiley-VCH New York, 2001 Vol. 2. 

Examples of molecular crystals are found throughout organic, organometallic, and inorganic chemistry. Low melting and boiling temperatures characterize the crystals. We will look at just two examples, carbon dioxide and water (ice), both familiar, small, covalently bonded molecules. 

Volume 2 is dedicated to a detailed description of the most important classes of electron transfer reactions involving organic molecules (Part 2.1) and organometallic and inorganic compounds (Part 2.2). In several cases the reactions described are important not only from the viewpoint of fundamental research on reaction mechanisms, but also for their catalytic and synthetic applications. The emerging fields of electron transfer reactions of fullerenes, electron-reservoir complexes, and biomi-metic electron transfer chemistry of porphyrins are discussed in depth. 

The first three criteria are absolute however, the last two standards are only approximated. Thus the isolobal analogy is relatively crude, but it is very useful since it relates the important orbitals in organic, organometallic, main group, and inorganic molecules to each other in a particularly simple fashion. The isolobal analogy can then be used as a short-cut to understand the basic electronic structure in a molecule. It can also be used to classify molecules that would appear to be quite different upon quick inspection and provide a mechanism for predicting the existence of unknown molecules. Finally, it offers clues about reactivity and possibly about reaction mechanisms. 

Sason These molecules also marked the revival of the field of inorganic chemistry and the dawn of organometallic chemistry, which unified organic and inorganic molecules. And by the way, complex 4 (Figure 9.1) contains a benzene molecule... 

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