Course Details
Subject {L-T-P / C} : CY4201 : Main Group and Organometallic Chemistry { 3-1-0 / 4}
Subject Nature : Theory
Coordinator : Prof. Aparna Mondal
Syllabus
Synthesis and chemical bonding in transition metal carbonyls, nitrosyls and phosphine complexes, Fischer Carbene complex, Schrock carbene complex, their synthesis and reactivity and their applications Structure, bonding, stability and reactivity of selected Inorganic Compounds: Acyclic & cyclic ring systems, boranes, carboranes, silicones, phosphazens. Polyacids: Isopoly acids and heteropoly acids of vanadium, chromium, molybdenum and tungsten. Phosphorous halides, acids and oxyacids of phosphorous, phosphazenes sulphur halides, oxo acids of sulpur boron halides phosphine-boranes boron heterocycles borazine. Silanes, silicon halides, silicates, silicones, silanols germanium, tin and lead organyls silenes, germenes and stannenes. Details of organoborane compounds and their reactivity (for example Suzuki coupling,) Different types of carbene (normal singlet and triplet carbene, N-heterocyclic carbene, non-classical carbene) and their utilization in catalysis and metal free small molecule activation.
Organometallic reagents in organic synthesis and in homogenous catalysis (for example, hydrogenation, hydro formylation), activation of small molecules by coordination of transition metal
Course Objectives
- To provide basic concepts of main group and organometallic chemistry.
Course Outcomes
1) This course provides the basic concepts of main group and organometallic chemistry. <br />2) Students will be able to relate how organometallic compounds are formed and how they behave chemically.
Essential Reading
- Huheey, Keiter and Keiter, , Inorganic chemistry Principle, structure and reactivity. 4th edition., Pearson
- D. F. Shriver, P. W. Atkins and C. H. Langford, Inorganic Chemistry, Oxford University Press
Supplementary Reading
- N. N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw, Chemistry of the Elements, Heinman,
- M. Chanda, Structure and Chemical bond, Tata McGraw Hill