Landmarks in organo-transition metal chemistry: a personal view

Contents......Page 13
1. Prologue......Page 19
References......Page 25
2.1 The Years at Home......Page 26
2.2 The First Move: From Mühlhausen to Jena......Page 36
2.3 The Second Move: From Jena to Munich......Page 41
2.4 The First Years at München......Page 43
2.5 From München to Pasadena and Back......Page 48
2.6 Crossing the Border: The Years at Zürich......Page 58
2.7 Back to Germany......Page 67
Biographies......Page 81
3.1 The Beginnings of Organometallic Chemistry......Page 85
3.2 Wilhelm Christoph Zeise and the First Transition Metal πComplex......Page 86
3.3 Edward Frankland\'s Pioneering Studies......Page 87
3.4 Victor Grignard: The Father of \'\'Organometallics for Organic Synthesis\"......Page 90
3.5 Paul Schützenberger and Ludwig Mond: The First Metal Carbonyls......Page 91
Biographies......Page 94
References......Page 99
4.1 A Class of \'\'Peculiar Compounds\'\'......Page 101
4.2 The Giant Work of Walter Hieber......Page 105
4.3 Hieber and his Followers......Page 109
4.4 Surprisingly Stable: Multiply Charged Carbonyl Metallate Anions......Page 114
4.5 Metal Carbonyl Cations: Not Incapable of Existence......Page 116
4.6 Highly Labile Metal Carbonyls......Page 118
4.7 The Exiting Chemistry of Metal Carbonyl Clusters......Page 121
4.8 Otto Roelen and Walter Reppe: Industrial Applications of Metal Carbonyls......Page 126
4.9 Biographies......Page 130
References......Page 135
5.1 The Early Days: Ferrocene......Page 144
5.2 The Rivalry of Fischer and Wilkinson......Page 150
5.3 Fischer\'s Star: Bis(benzene)chromium......Page 151
5.4 Hein\'s \'\'Polyphenylchromium Compounds\'\'......Page 153
5.5 Zeiss and Tsutsui: Hein\'s Work Revisited......Page 155
5.6 Wilkinson\'s Next Steps......Page 160
5.7 From Sandwich Complexes to Organometallic Dendrimers......Page 161
5.8 The Taming of Cyclobutadiene: A Case of Theory before Experiment......Page 165
5.9 The Smaller and Larger Ring Brothers of Ferrocene......Page 167
5.10 Sandwiches with P5 and Heterocycles as Ring Ligands......Page 169
5.11 Two Highlights from the 21st Century......Page 172
5.12 Brintzinger\'s Sandwich-Type Catalysts......Page 174
5.13 Woodward and the Nobel Prize......Page 176
Biographies......Page 178
References......Page 184
6.1 The Breakthrough: [Ni[sub(2)](C[sub(5)]H[sub(5)])[sub(3)]][sup(+)]......Page 192
6.2 The Iron and Ruthenium Counterparts......Page 197
6.3 Arene-bridged Triple-Decker Sandwiches......Page 200
6.4 \'\'Big Macs\" with Bridging P[sub(5)], P[sub(6)] and Heterocycles as Ligands......Page 201
6.5 Tetra-, Penta- and Hexa-Decker Sandwich Complexes......Page 204
References......Page 206
7.1 From 1827 to the 1930s: In the Footsteps of Zeise......Page 210
7.2 Reihlen\'s Strange Butadiene Iron Tricarbonyl......Page 214
7.3 Michael Dewar\'s \'\'Landmark Contribution\'\'......Page 215
7.4 The Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson Model......Page 217
7.5 An Exciting Branch: Mono- and Oligoolefin Metal Carbonyls......Page 219
7.6 Schrauzer\'s Early Studies on Homoleptic OlefinNickel (0) Complexes......Page 223
7.7 Wilke\'s Masterpieces and the \'\'Naked Nickel\'\'......Page 224
7.8 Stone and the Family of Olefin Palladium(0) and Platinum (0)Compounds......Page 229
7.9 Timms\', Fischer\'s and Green\'s Distinctive Shares......Page 231
7.10 A Recent Milestone: Jonas\' Olefin Analogues of Hieber\'s Metal Carbonylates......Page 234
Biographies......Page 236
References......Page 243
8.1 The Search for Divalent Carbon Compounds......Page 250
8.2 From Wanzlick\'s and Öfele\'s Work to Arduengo\'s Carbenes......Page 252
8.3 The Breakthrough: Fischer\'s Metal Carbenes......Page 253
8.4 The Next Highlight: Fischer\'s Metal Carbynes......Page 256
8.5 Öfele\'s, Casey\'s and Chatt\'s Routes to Metal Carbenes......Page 257
8.6 Lappert\'s Seminal Work on Bis(amino)carbene Complexes......Page 259
8.7 A Big Step: Schrock\'s Metal Carbenes and Carbynes......Page 262
8.8 Fischer and His Followers......Page 268
8.9 Using the Isolobal Analogy: Metal Complexes with Bridging Carbenes and Carbynes......Page 271
8.10 The Seemingly Existing CCL[sub(2)] and Its Generation at Transition Metal Centers......Page 274
8.12 The First and Second Generation of Grubbs\' Ruthenium Carbenes......Page 278
8.13 From Metal Carbenes to Open-Shell Metal Carbyne and Carbido Complexes......Page 283
8.14 The Dötz Reaction and the Use of Metal Carbenes for Organic Synthesis......Page 286
8.15 Olefin Metathesis: A Landmark in Applied Organometallic Chemistry......Page 287
8.16 An Extension: Metal Complexes with Unsaturated Carbenes......Page 289
Biographies......Page 291
References......Page 299
9.1 The Extensions of Frankland\'s Pioneering Work......Page 312
9.2 Heteroleptic Complexes with Metal–Alkyl and Metal–Aryl Bonds......Page 314
9.3 Chatt and His Contemporaries......Page 315
9.4 Lappert, Wilkinson and the Isolation of Stable Metal Alkyls und Aryls......Page 319
9.5 An Apparent Conflict: Metal Alkyls and Aryls Containing σ-and π-Donor Ligands......Page 325
9.6 Binary Metal Alkyls with M–M Multiple Bonds......Page 329
9.7 The Recent Highlight: Power\'s RCrCrR and the Fivefold Cr–Cr Bonding......Page 330
9.8 Novel Perspectives: Metal Alkyls and Aryls Formed by C – H and C–C Activation......Page 332
9.9 Metal Alkyls and Aryls in Catalysis......Page 339
References......Page 340
10. Epilogue......Page 351
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