Energetics of Organometallic Species

1. Historical Perspective of Organometallic Thermochemistry.- 2. Combustion Calorimetry of Organometallic Compounds.- 3. Organo-f-Element Thermochemistry. Implications for Reactivity and Bonding from Metal-Ligand Bonding Energetics.- 4. The Role of Bond Energies in Hydrocarbon Activation by Transition Metal Centers.- 5. Rh-C Bond Dissociation Enthalpies for Organometallic Derivatives of Rhodium Porphyrins.- 6. Solution Thermochemistry of Organometallic Compounds Using Photoacoustic Calorimetry: Enthalpies of Ligand Exchange, Metal-Ligand Bonds, and Metal-Solvent Interactions.- 7. Electrochemistry of Some Organic and Organometallic Radicals and their Application in Thermochemical Cycles.- 8. Derivative Cyclic Voltammetry: Applications in the Investigation of the Energetics of Organometallic Electrode Reactions.- 9. The Use of Calorimetric and Sublimation Techniques to Study Bond Properties in Organometallic Compounds.- 10. Estimating Enthalpies of Sublimation of Hydrocarbons.- 11. Derivation of Thermodynamic Quantities from Kinetic Measurements in Gas Phase Silane Chemistry.- 12. Bond Enthalpy Transferability - is it Achievable?.- 13. Estimates of Thermochemical Data for Organometallic Compounds.- 14. Bonding and Solvation Energetics for Organometallic Gas-Phase Molecules and Ions: Experimental Approaches and Thermodynamic Insights.- 15. Gas-Phase Acidities of Transition-Metal Carbonyl and Trifluorophosphine Hydrides.- 16. Bond Strengths in Transition Metal Carbonyl Anions.- 17. Fundamental Gas Phase Studies of the Mechanism and Thermochemistry of Organometallic Reactions.- 18. Guided Ion Beam Studies of the Energetics of Organometallic Species.- 19. A Guide to Density Functional Theory and Its Practical Applications to the Energetics of Organometallic Species.- 20. Theoretical Models for Organometallic Reactions.- List of Posters and Contributed Oral Presentations.- List of Participants.