Organometallic with metal—carbon sigma bonds

Organometallic compounds in the environment were covered in COMC (1982). The present review covers the period since 1982, but with emphasis on developments since 1993. The essential principles are also summarized here. A number of detailed monograph articles exist covering the elements referred to in this chapter and a one-volume work covering the subject was published in 2003. The organometallic compounds considered here, nearly all, have conventional metal-to-carbon sigma bonds, often to the methyl group (see below). 

Figure 12.2 Some organometallic compounds with sigma-covalent metal-carbon bonds.

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