Basic Organometallic Chemistry

Prof. B D Gupta is professor at the chemistry department of IIT Kanpur. After completing his MS (Hons) from Punjab University Chandigarh and Ph.D from Flinders University, Australia, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University College, London. After a one year teaching stint at Roorkee University (now IIT Roorkee), he joined IIT Kanpur where he has been teaching undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students for over 30 years. He has taught undergraduate classes for many years at various universities in the USA and Japan. His research interests are in the area of organometallic chemistry of cobalt compounds. He has published more than 90 research papers in international journals of repute. Prof. Anil J Elias is professor at the chemistry department of IIT Delhi. He holds a doctorate in inorganic chemistry from IIT Madras and has gained further experience as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow in Germany and later at the fluorine research laboratories of the University of Idaho, USA. He has been teaching undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students at IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi for over 16 years. His research interests are in the area of organometallic and main group chemistry. He has published more than 50 research papers including review articles in reputed international journals.

Introduction
The 18 valence electron rule
Metal carbonyls
Neutral spectator ligands: Phosphines and N- heterocyclic carbenes
Alkenes and alkynes as ligands
Carbenes and carbynes: complexes with metal carbon double and triple bonds
Alkyl, aryl and ligands with higher hapticity
Unique reactions in organometallic chemistry
Ligand substitution reactions, metal–metal bonding and fluxionality in organometallic compounds
Organometallic clusters
Homogeneous catalysis using organometallic compounds
Hydrogenation, hydrosilylation and hydrocyanation of alkenes and asymmetric hydrogenation
Hydroformylation
Methanol carbonylation and olefin oxidation: Monsanto, Cativa and Wacker processes
Olefin metathesis
Palladium catalysed C-C and C-N cross coupling reactions
Olefin polymerisation reactions
Ferrocene: Structure, bonding and reactions
Organometallic polymers
Bioorganometallic chemistry