The organometallic chemistry of the transition metals / Robert H. Crabtree.

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Werner Complexes -- The Trans Effect -- Soft Versus Hard Ligands -- The Crystal Field -- The Ligand Field -- Back Bonding -- Electroneutrality -- Types of Ligand -- General Properties of Organometallic Complexes -- The 18-Electron Rule -- Limitations of the 18-Electron Rule -- Electron Counting in Reactions -- Oxidation State -- Coordination Number and Geometry -- Effects of Complexation -- Differences Between Metals -- Inner/Outer-Sphere Coordination -- Metal Alkyls, Aryls, and Hydrides and Related [sigma]-Bonded Ligands -- Transition Metal Alkyls and Aryls -- Related [sigma]-Bonded Ligands -- Metal Hydride Complexes -- Sigma Complexes -- Bond Strengths for Classical [sigma]-Bonding Ligands -- Carbonyls, Phosphine Complexes, and Ligand Substitution Reactions -- Metal Complexes of CO, RNC, CS, and NO -- Phosphines as Ligands -- Dissociative Substitution -- The Associative Mechanism -- Redox Effects, The I Mechanism, and Rearrangements in Substitution -- Photochemical Substitution -- Steric and Solvent Effects in Substitution -- Complexes of [pi]-Bound Ligands -- Alkene and Alkyne Complexes -- Allyl Complexes -- Diene Complexes -- Cyclopentadienyl Complexes -- Complexes of Arenes and Other Alicyclic Ligands -- Metalacycles and Isoelectronic and Isolobal Replacement -- Stability of Polyene and Polyenyl Complexes -- Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination -- Concerted Additions -- S[subscript N]2 Reactions -- Radical Mechanisms -- Ionic Mechanisms -- Reductive Elimination -- [sigma]-Bond Metathesis.