Metal Organic Chemistry

Metal organic chemistry is a field that studies all compounds that contain metals and organic molecules/ligands. Organometallic chemistry is a subfield of metal organic chemistry because it deals only with compounds that contain at least one metal carbon bond. By the end of this course you should be able to make an educative guess about the stability and reactivity of a given metal organic compound, and propose a reasonable mechanism based on standard reaction steps in metal organic reactions.

Lecture 1: Introduction and Basic Terms

Lecture 2: Main Group Organometallics

Lecture 3: Transition Metal Organometallics

Lecture 4: Reactions at ligands

Lecture 5: Insertion and Elimination

Lecture 6: Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination

Lecture 7: Metal Carbenes and Metathesis