27784 - Metal-Organic and Coordination Chemistry, LM

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide advanced knowledge on the synthesis, the characterization and the chemistry of organometallic compounds with particular emphasis for those of the transition metal elements. The importance of organometallics in homogeneous catalysis will be stressed in order to give instruments for understanding the role of the metal in the key steps of the catalytic reactions. in synthesis and industrial productions. Furthermore the student acquires competences in the use of organometallic and coordination compounds as new molecular functional materials.

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Course contents

1. Metal-carbonyls mono and polynuclear. Principal reaction types of coordinated carbon monoxide.

2. Metal-alkyl and metal-aryl compounds. Reactions of carbon-carbon bond formation.

3. Metal-hydrides and dihydrogen complexes.

4. The coordination of olefins to transition metals and the role of the metal to olefin bond in catalytic processes. Dimerization and polymerization - Ziegler-Natta catalysts - stereospecific synthesis of polymers.

5. Metal-carbenes: Fischer and Schrock type. The alkene metathesis and cyclopropanation. Grubbs catalysts.

6. Metal-carbynes. The cyclooligomerization reactions.

7. Reactivity of organic molecules p-coordinated to transition metals. Metal-allyl and -cyclopentadienyl compounds s and p- coordinated.

8. The organometallics catalysis in the synthesis and the industrial processes.

9. Applications of organometallic and coordination compounds in the field of molecular functional materials.

10.  Lab. experiences of synthesis, purification and spectroscopic characterization (by GC, IR, NMR) of some transition metal complexes will also be planned.

Readings/Bibliography

Elschenbroich Ch., Salzer A., "Organometallics, a concise introduction", VCH  Verlagsgesellschaft, Weinheim, Germania.

Crabtree R.H., "The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals", third edition, a Wiley-Interscience Publication, New York, Usa.

Collman J.P., HegedusL.S., Norton J.R., Finke R.G., "Principles and Applications of Organotransition Metal Chemistry " University Science Books, Mill Valley, California, Usa.

 

Teaching methods

Lectures and Exercise and self-solved Problems.

Participations to conferences in topics related to the field.

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

It will be checked the ability to understand the fundamental characteristics which determinate the catalytic properties of organometallic compounds in the synthesis and in industrial processes.

Teaching tools

Blackboard and overhead projector.

Office hours

See the website of Luigi Busetto

See the website of Silvia Bordoni