Structural chemistry compounds

Inductive learning has been the major process of acquiring chemical knowledge from the very beginnings of chemistry - or, to make the point, alchemy. Chemists have done experiments, have made measurements on the properties of their compounds, have treated them with other compounds to study their reactions, and have run reactions to make new compounds. Systematic variations in the structure of compounds, or in reaction conditions, provided results that were ordered by developing models. These models then allowed predictions to be made. 

The successful application of heterocyclic compounds in these and many other ways, and their appeal as materials in applied chemistry and in more fundamental and theoretical studies, stems from their very complexity this ensures a virtually limitless series of structurally novel compounds with a wide range of physical, chemical and biological properties, spanning a broad spectrum of reactivity and stability. Another consequence of their varied chemical reactivity, including the possible destruction of the heterocyclic ring, is their increasing use in the synthesis of specifically functionalized non-heterocyclic structures. 

Boron (like silicon) invariably occurs in nature as 0X0 compounds and is never found as the element or even directly bonded to any other element than oxygen. The structural chemistry of B-O compounds is characterized by an extraordinary complexity and diversity which rivals those of the borides (p. 145) and boranes (p. 151). In addition, vast numbers of predominantly organic compounds containing B-O are known. 

The structural chemistry of the Group 14 elements affords abundant illustrations of the trends to be expected from increasing atomic size, increasing electropositivity and increasing tendency to form compounds, and these will become clear during the more detailed treatment of the chemistry in the succeeding sections. The often complicated stereochemistry of compounds (which arises from the presence of a nonbonding electron-pair on the metal) is... 

Increased interest in the chemistry of ylides has produced X-ray structures for compounds 123 (R = OMe) (91T5277) and 138 (92H(34)1005), while possibilities of complex formation have led to structures for bidentate copper complex of 135 (94JCS(D)2651), monodentate copper complex of the 3-phenyltria-zolopyridine 139, monodentate (through N2) dinitrato ligand of 3-methyl-triazolopyridine 140 (99MI4), and dinitrato bidentate copper complex of... 

Structural Chemistry of Manganese Dioxide and Related Compounds... 

The structural chemistry of zirconium compounds. T. E. MacDermott, Coord. Chem. Rev., 1973. 

Chapters were planned on Structural chemistry of solids NMR and ESR Carbon acidity Syntheses and uses of isotopically labelled compounds and on Pyrolysis in this volume, but did not materialize. We will try to fill these gaps in a future supplementary volume. 

ET-IR spectroscopy was employed to investigate the structures of the 1 1 complexes between Li" and the guanidine-substituted azo compounds pyiidine-2-azo-p-phenyltetramethylguanidine and 4,4 -bis(tetramethylguanidine)azoben-zene. Both Li" complexes exist as dimers in acetonitrile solution.The structural chemistry of potassium N,N -di(tolyl)formamidinate complexes has been investigated in detail. These compounds were prepared by deprotonation of the parent Af,N -di(tolyl)formamidines with potassium hydride (Scheme 13). The resulting adducts with either THE or DME display one-dimensional polymeric solid-state structures that exhibit /r-fj fj -coordinated formamidinates. 

Trivalent cations are present in most of niobium oxychloride cluster compounds known to date and play an important role in their structural chemistry. The series AxNb6Cli202 (A = K, Rb, Cs, In), on the other hand, represents an example of an oxychloride structure stabilized without a trivalent counter-ion (Fig. 6.12). 

Hiickel, W. (1950). Structural Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds, vol. 1. New York Elsevier. 

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