_P.-Powell-auth.-Principles-of-Organometallic-Chemistry-Springer-Netherlands-1988

Contents
Foreword
Preface
Periodic table of the elements
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1. General survey
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Historical background
1. 3 Properties 2
1.4 Classification of organometallic compounds by bond type 2
1.5 The 'stability' of organometallic compounds 9
1.6 References 13
2. Methods of formation of metal-carbon bonds of the main
group elements 15
2.1 The reaction between a metal and an organic halogen
compound 15
2.2 Metal exchange: the reaction between a metal and an
organometallic compound of another metal 19
2.3 Reactions of organometallic compounds with metal halides 20
2.4 Addition of metal hydrides to alkenes and alkynes 22
2.5 Formation of metal-carbon bonds by other insertion
reactions
2.6 Reactions of diazo compounds
2. 7 Decarboxylation of heavy B-metal salts
2.8 References
3. Organometallic compounds of elements of the first three
periodic groups 29
3.1 Introduction 29
3. 2 Structures 31
3.3 Alkali-metal derivatives 39
3.4 Grignard reagents 50
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