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

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 One Nomenclature

Appendix Two Molecular Symmetry: The Point Group

Index