1st Edition
by L. James Wright (Editor)
The only comprehensive book covering of advances in metallabenzene chemistry―written by the leading experts in the field
Metallabenzenes: An Expert View
provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of metallabenzene
chemistry, including syntheses, reactions, physical properties, and
theoretical treatments of metallabenzenes. Fused ring metallabenzenes,
heterometallabenzenes, and metallabenzenes that are p-bound to other
metal fragments are also discussed in depth.
Although benzene
itself was discovered in 1825, it wasn’t until 1982 that the first
metallabenzene was isolated. Since then, interest in these compounds has
built steadily, and metallabenzene chemistry is now a flourishing sub
discipline in its own right. A diverse range of synthetic approaches to
these compounds have been devised, and new developments and discoveries
have appeared regularly over the past several decades. Yet, until now,
no books devoted to this fascinating and important class of chemical
compounds have been available to researchers and students. This
bookfills that gap in the literature with a comprehensive review of
recent advances in metallabenzene chemistry theory and applications.
Featuring contributions by an international group of experts in the
field, each chapter summarizes important recent research in and
significant contributions to various aspects of metallabenzene
chemistry.
- Provides academics, researchers and graduate students with a comprehensive review of advances in metallabenzene research
- Covers
fused-ring metallabenzenes―including metallanaphthalenes,
metallabenzofurans, and metallabenzothiophenes―as well as p-bound
heterometallabenzenes and metallabenzenes
- Reviews the latest computational studies that have led to the theoretical understanding of metallabenzenes
- Includes critical discussions of metallabenzene aromaticity, an area rarely covered by computational experts
Metallabenzenes: An Expert View
is an important working resource for those working in organometallic
chemistry, aromaticity, coordination chemistry, theoretical chemistry,
catalysis and materials science. It is also an excellent text for
graduate-level courses in those areas.
