Introduction to Coordination Chemistry

Preamble.

1 The Central Atom.

1.1 Key Concepts in Coordination Chemistry.

1.2 A Who’s Who of Metal Ions.

1.3 Metals in Molecules.

1.4 The Road Ahead.

Concept Keys.

Further Reading.

2 Ligands.

2.1 Membership: Being A Ligand.

2.2 Monodentate Ligands – The Simple Type.

2.3 Greed is Good – Polydentate Ligands.

2.4 Polynucleating Species – Molecular Bigamists.

2.5 A Separate Race — Organometallic Species.

Concept Keys.

Further Reading.

3 Complexes.

3.1 The Central Metal Ion.

3.2 Metal-Ligand Marriage.

3.3 Holding On — The Nature of Bonding in Metal Complexes.

3.4 Coupling – Polymetallic Complexes.

3.5 Making Choices.

3.6 Complexation Consequences.

Concept Keys.

Further Reading.

4 Shape.

4.1 Getting in Shape.

4.2 Forms of Complex Life.

4.3 Influencing Shape.

4.4 Isomerism – Real 3D Effects.

4.5 Sophisticated Shapes.

4.6 Defining Shape.

Concept Keys.

Further Reading.

5 Stability.

5.1 The Makings of a Stable Relationship.

5.2 Complexation – Will it Last?

5.3 Reactions.

Concept Keys.

Further Reading.

6 Synthesis.

6.1 Molecular Creation — Ways to Make Complexes.

6.2 Core Metal Chemistry — Periodic Table Influences.

6.3 Reactions Involving the Coordination Shell.

6.4 Reactions Involving the Metal Oxidation State.

6.5 Reactions Involving Coordinated.

6.6 Organometallic Synthesis.

Concept Keys.

Further Reading.

7 Properties.

7.1 Finding Ways to Make Complexes Talk — Investigative Methods.

7.2 Getting Physical — Methods and Outcomes.

7.3 Probing the Life of Complexes — Using Physical Methods.

Concept Keys.

Further Reading.

8 A Complex Life.

8.1 Life’s a Metal Ion.

8.2 Metalloproteins and Metalloenzymes.

8.3 Doing What Comes Unnaturally - Synthetic Biomolecules. 

8.4 A Laboratory-free Approach — In Silico Prediction.

Concept Keys.

Further Reading.

9 Complexes and Commerce.

9.1 Kill or Cure? — Complexes as Drugs.

9.2 How Much? — Analysing with Complexes.

9.3 Profiting from Complexation.

9.4 Being Green.

9.5 Complex Futures.

Concept Keys.

Further Reading.

Appendix A Nomenclature.

Appendix B Molecular Symmetry: The Point Group.

Index.