The Chemistry of the Metal-Carbon Bond will be a multi-volume work within the
well established series of books covering The Chemistry of Functional Groups. It aims
to cover the chemistry of the metal-carbon bond as a whole. but lays emphasis on the
carbon end. It should therefore be of particular interest to the organic chemist. The
general plan of the material will be the same as in previous volumes with the exception
that. because of the large amount of material involved, this will be a multi-volume
work. This present volume is concerned with:
(a) Structure and thermochemistry of organometallic compounds.
(b) The preparation of organometallic compounds.
(c) The analysis and spectroscopic characterization of organometallic compounds.
Chapters on the theoretical understanding of the metal-carbon bond and the
preparation of organometallic compounds of the main group m-etals have not yet been
completed. They will be included in the second volume, which will also cover
metal-carbon bond cleavage reactions. Later volumes will be concerned with the use
of organometallic compounds for the formation of new carbon-carbon, carbonhydrogen
and other carbon-element bonds. In classifying organornetallic compounds
we have used Cotton’s hapto-nomenc1atl;re (q-) to indica:: the number of carbon
atoms directly linked to a single metal atom.