Transition metal complexes electrochemical behaviour

An exhaustive treatment of the electrochemical behaviour of transition metal complexes is beyond the scope of this book, because the enormous number of ligands available, combined with the possibility to prepare mono- and/or polynuclear complexes using identical or mixed ligands, would render such a task almost impossible. Therefore, the discussion is limited to some aspects associated with the redox properties of (essentially) mononuclear metal complexes. In particular, we will concentrate representatively on the redox changes of first row transition metal complexes (excluding the metallocene complexes, as they have been already discussed in Chapter 4) that give stable, or relatively stable products. A systematic and useful examination of the redox activity of organometallic complexes of transition metals dated to 1984 has appeared.1... 

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