Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry

This book serves as a concise guide to essential topics in Transition Metal Organometallic Chemistry for senior undergraduate and graduate students; it blends qualitative theoretical approach with experimental description of the facts. Its content emphasizes on the orbital description of M-L bonds; the electronic structures of the main types of organometallic complexes (ML2 to ML6); main types of organometallic reactions; organometallic compound synthesis, analytical characterization and the reactivity and lastly the applications of transition metals in homogeneous catalysis.

Dr. Francois Mathey received a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Paris VI in 1971. He worked for the chemical industry until 1986 and then moved to Ecole Polytechnique. He left Ecole Polytechnique for the University of California Riverside in 2003 and joined NTU in 2008. He has got several awards including the silver medal of the CNRS, the Raymond Berr-Atochem and Grignard-Wittig awards of the French Chemical Society, the Paul Langevin and Mergier-Bourdeix awards of the French Academy of Sciences, the A. von Humboldt research prize, a JSPS fellowship, the Main Group Chemistry award, the Arbuzov prize, the City of Zhengzhou's Shangdu Friendship award, the People's Republic of China's Friendship Award. He is member of the French Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina Academy, Academy of Göttingen, Academia Europaea, European Academy of Sciences and foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . He has been President of the French Chemical Society between 2000 and 2003. He has taught transition metal organometallic chemistry to undergraduate and graduate students for 20 years now.