Synthesis and Reactions of Coordination Compounds

In this chapter, a survey of the enormously broad area of reactions of coordination compounds will be presented, and some of the basic mechanisms of the reactions will be presented. However, reactions of coordination compounds is such a very broad area that this chapter (as would be the case of any chapter) can present only the basic concepts and an elementary introduction to the field. More detailed coverage will be found in the references listed at the end of the chapter. The classic books in the field are Basolo and Pearson (1974) and Wilkins (1991), which present excellent and detailed reviews of the literature. We begin the chapter by illustrating some of the synthetic methods that have been useful for synthesizing coordination compounds. 

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House, James E., and House, Kathleen A. (2001). Structure and Bonding in Coordination Compounds (Chapter 19) and Synthesis and Reactions of Coordination Compounds (Chapter 20). In Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry. San Diego Harcourt/Academic Press. 

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