Guia docente 2023_24 Facultade de Química

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Subject 1. Introduction	Definition. History. Ranking. Types of ligands. Rule of the 18 electrons.
Subject 2. Organometallic compounds with type L ligands (I).	Carbonyls, phosphines, carbenes and carbines.
Subject 3. Organometallic compounds with type L ligands (II).	Pi complexes: Alkenes, alkynes, polyenes and arenes.
Subject 4. Organometallic compounds with type L ligands (III).	Sigma complexes: Dihydrogen, silanes, boranes and alcanes.
Subject 5. Organometallic compounds with type X ligands.	Hydrides, alkyls, aryls and vinyls.
Subject 6. Organometallic compounds with carbon LnX ligands.	Alyls and cyclopentadienyls.
Subject 7. Types of organometallic reactions (I).	Ligand substitution reactions.
Subject 8. Types of organometallic reactions (II).	Reactions of oxidative addition and reductive elimination.
Subject 9. Types of organometallic reactions (III).	Reactions of migratory insertion and elimination.
Subject 10. Types of organometallic reactions (IV).	Reactions of nucleophilic and electrophilic attack to coordinated ligands.
Subject 11. Organometallic catalysis.	General comments. Relevant catalytic cycles.