Studies of Organometallics

Ziegler, T., 1995, Density Functional Theory as a Practical Tool in Studies of Organometallic Energetics and Kinetics. Beating the Heavy Metal Blues With DFT , Can. J. Chem., 73, 743. 

Anionic and cationic species are particularly easy to study in the gas phase using mass spectrometric techniques. Studies of organometallic reactions involving neutral species are becoming more prevalent. The elegant study of the catalytic hydrogenation of ethylene by photochemical... 

Mass spectroscopic studies of organometallic compounds are almost as old as the field of mass spectrometry nickel tetracarbonyl was studied by J. J. Thomson (/) and Aston (2,3) in their work on the isotope ratios of nickel. Following this early flurry of specialized interest, however, inorganic and organometallic mass spectral studies were... 

Transition metal NMR studies of organometallic and inorganic coordination compounds... 

Chemical Properties. Simple molecular-orbital theory predicts that many organometallic molecules should show electronic effects similar to conjugated systems, since the electronic structure is generally expressed in terms of molecular orbitals which involve both ring and metal orbitals. The ESR spectra (Sec. III.C) provide physical evidence for this formulation however correlation between chemical reactivities and theoretical quantities, such as charge densities and localization energies, which has been of use in aromatic systems (60) has not been attempted. Indeed, very few detailed kinetic studies of organometallic compounds have been reported with which to compare theory. We consider the different classes of compounds in turn. 

Degenerate four-wave mixing has been widely used for the study of organometallics. At present, it forms a complementary technique to the technically less difficult Z-scan, in that is can be used to verify that the origin of the observed nonlinearity is electronic in nature. 

Electron spin resonance spectroscopy has made a considerable impact on the study of organometallic free radical chemistry. Four significant developments may be identified (i) the introduction of steady-state photoly-... 

The previous sections discussed theoretical work of parent compounds of heavier group-14 elements which are homologues of important carbon reference compounds. In the next sections we will discuss in brief theoretical studies of organometallic molecules of germanium, tin and lead which were published since 1990. 

Noor F, Kinscherf R, Bonaterra GA, Walczak S, W51H S, Metzler-Nolte N (2009) Enhanced cellular uptake and cytotoxicity studies of organometallic bioconjugates of the NLS peptide in Hep G2 cells. Chembiochem 10 493-502... 

Bursten, B. E. and Gatter, M. G. (1984). Molecular orbital studies of organometallic hydride complexes 2. The correlation of hydrogen atom reactivity with valence orbital energetics. Organometallics 3, 895. 

R. F. Bryan X-ray and electron diffraction studies of organometallic compounds, pp. 468-500 (255). 

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