Metal-Metal Bonds and Clusters in Chemistry and Catalysis

Front Matter....Pages i-x
A Quarter-Century of Metal-Metal Multiple Bonds....Pages 1-6
The Multiple Metal-Metal Bond: Twenty-Five Years of Synthetic Serendipity and Structural Discovery....Pages 7-17
Theoretical Studies of Dinuclear Compounds with Multiple Metal-Metal Bonds....Pages 19-39
Uses of Metal Clusters in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis....Pages 41-54
Reactivity of Dinuclear and Tetranuclear Clusters of Molybdenum and Tungsten....Pages 55-74
Clusters and Their Implications for Catalyis....Pages 75-89
Metal Clusters in the Solid State....Pages 91-102
Nature of Bimetallic Clusters....Pages 103-112
Thermochemical Aspects of Organotransition Metal Chemistry. Insights Provided by Metal-Ligand Bond Enthalpies....Pages 113-125
Metal Clusters and Supported Metal Catalysts....Pages 127-140
Mechanistic Features of Carbonyl Cluster Rearrangement....Pages 141-160
Selective Oxidation Chemistry on Soluble Oxides: A Progress Report....Pages 161-170
The Study of Clusters of Polylithium Organic Compounds and Structural Studies of Polylithium Organic Compounds....Pages 171-194
Organometallic Chemical Vapor Deposition of GaAs and Related Semiconductors Using Novel Organometallic Precursors....Pages 195-204
Surface Chemistry of Mixed-Metal Systems....Pages 205-214
Organometallic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Aluminum Nitride and Aluminum Metal....Pages 215-230
Solid State Carbon-13 NMR of Metal Carbonyls....Pages 231-247
Surface Chemistry of Metal and Semiconductor Clusters....Pages 249-264
The Electronic Structure of Metal Dimers and Metal Clusters: The Eighteen-Electron Rule vs . Skeletal Electron-Pair Counting....Pages 265-273
Experimental Measures of Metal-Metal Sigma, Pi, and Delta Bonding from Photoelectron Spectroscopy....Pages 275-298
Formation, Structure and Luminescent Properties of Metal-Metal Bonded Compounds of the Late Transition Metal and Post Transition Metal Ions....Pages 299-309
The Preparation and Characterization of New Heteropolyoxofluorometalate Anion, [FeW 17 O 56 F 6 H 5 ] 8− ....Pages 311-311
Facile Exchange of Terminal, Doubly Bridging, and Quadruply Bridging Carbonyl Ligands in Solution: Crystal Structure and Solution Dynamics of LWM 3 (CO) 12 H, L=C 5 H 5 , C 5 Me 5 and M=Os, Ru....Pages 312-313
Thermal Constants and Structure of Tin Clusters....Pages 314-314
Reactivity and Isomerization of Mo 2 (Allyl) 4 ....Pages 315-315
Surface Coordination/Organometallic Chemistry of Monometal and Bimetallic Electrocatalysts....Pages 316-317
Ambient-Temperature Chloroaluminate Molten Salts: Solvents for Chloro Complex Electrochemistry and for Reductive Condensation Syntheses....Pages 318-318
The Maximum Strength of the Chemical Bond between Two Metal Atoms....Pages 319-319
Reactions of ( η 7 -C 7 H 7 )M( η 5 -C 5 H 5 ), M = Ti or Zr, with Carboxylic and Dithiocarboxylic Acids....Pages 320-320
Model Hydrodesulfurization Systems: Reactions of Sulfur Containing Molecules on Ni(110)....Pages 321-321
Electrochemical Studies of Triangular Niobium Cluster, Nb 3 O 2 (SO 4 ) 6 · 3H 2 O 5− , in Sulfuric Acid....Pages 322-322
Reactivity of Dithioethers Toward [Re 2 X 8 ] 2− ....Pages 323-323
Theoretical Investigations of the Metal-Metal Interactions within the Trinuclear Au 2 Pt(CH 2 (S)PH 2 ) 4 Complex....Pages 324-324
Structural and Theoretical Studies on Heteronuclear Transition-Metal Clusters Containing the Alkylidyne Ligand....Pages 325-325
Electronic Structure and Nature of Bonding in Transition Metal Dimers....Pages 326-326
Theoretical Calculations on the Interaction of Bridging Carbonyls with Transition Metal Dimers....Pages 327-327
Bimetallic Hydroformylation Catalysis....Pages 328-328
 252 CF-Plasma Desorption Mass Spectra of Very Large Clusters....Pages 329-329
Systematic Kinetic Studies of Associative and Dissociative Reactions of Substituted Metal Carbonyl Clusters: The Intimate Mechanisms....Pages 330-331
Mixed Pd-Au and Pt-Au Cluster Compounds....Pages 332-332
Stability of Small Biclusters of Transition Metals with Semi-Conductors....Pages 333-333
The Topology of the Total Charge Density in Binuclear Transition-Metal Complexes That Formally Contain Metal-Metal Bonds....Pages 334-334
The Effect of Carbonyl Ligands on Osmium and Ruthenium Metal-Metal Bonds....Pages 335-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-341