Energetics of Organometallic Species

Historical perspective of organometallic thermochemistry; combustion calorimetry of organometallic compounds; organo-f-element thermochemistry, implications for reactivity and bonding from metal-ligand bonding energetics; the role of bond energies in hydrocarbon activation by transition metal centers; Rh-C bond dissociation enthalpies for organometallic derivatives of rhodium pophyrins; solution thermochemistry of organometallic compounds using photoacoustic calorimetry - enthalpies of liquid exchange, metal-ligand bonds and metal-solvent interactions; electrochemistry of some organic and organometallic radicals and their application in thermochemical cycles; derivative cyclic voltammetry - applications in the investigation of the energetics of organometallic electrode reactions; the use of calometric and sublimation techniques to study bond properties in organometallic compounds; estimations enthalpies of sublimation of hydrocarbons; derivation of thermodynamic quantities from kinetic measurments in gas phase silane chemistry; bond enthalpy transferability - is it achievable?; estimates of thermochemical data for organometallic compounds; bonding and solvation energetics for organometallic gas-phase molecules and ions - experimental approaches and thermodynamic insights; gas-phase activities of transition-metal carbonyl and trifluorophosphine hydrides; bond strengths in transition metal carbonyl anions; fundamental gas-phase studies of the mechanism and thermochemistry of organometallic species; a guide to density functional theory and its practical applications to the energetics of organometallic species; theoretical models for organometallic reactions.