Syllabus

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Syllabus

Unit 1: Organometallic Compounds-Synthesis, Structure and Bonding                                      (18 Hours)

1. Organometallic compounds with linear pi donor ligands- synthesis, structure and bonding.

1. olefins,
2. acetylenes,
3. dienes
4. allyl complexes

2. Complexes with cyclic pi donors  structure and bonding

1. metallocenes
2. cyclic arene complexes .

3. Hapto nomenclature.

4.Carbene and carbyne complexes.

5.Preparation, properties, structure and bonding of simple mono and binuclear metal carbonyls

6.Preparation, properties, structure and bonding of metal nitrosyls
7.Preparation, properties, structure and bonding of metal cyanides
8. Preparation, properties, structure and bonding of dinitrogen complexes.

9. Polynuclear metal carbonyls with and without bridging.

10. Carbonyl clusters-LNCCS and HNCCS,

11. Isoelectronic and isolobal analogy,

12 .Wade-Mingos rules, cluster valence electrons.