Coordination Chemistry: Basics and Current Trends

by Birgit Weber

Overview

The Chemistry of Complex Compounds is ideally prepared in this textbook for undergraduate chemistry students, providing both an easy and comprehensive introduction to the subject, which is relevant to examinations. It is based on proven lecture notes and assumes no basic knowledge. In addition to basic questions such as "what are complexes" and "what are organometallic compounds", the common bonding models are presented and the colour and stability of coordination compounds are explained, among other things. Other chapters cover redox reactions in complexes, the metal-metal bond, molecular magnetism, supramolecular chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry. As a conclusion, the book gives an outlook into current research areas and trends in coordination chemistry, so that students of higher semesters and PhD students will also benefit from reading it. This includes the luminescence of complexes and selected examples of reactions catalyzed by complexes. Birgit Weber is a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bayreuth. Her research focuses on coordination chemistry and ligand design for multifunctional switchable complexes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783662664407
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/28/2023
Edition description:	1st ed. 2023
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.61(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)

About the Author

Birgit Weber is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth. Her research focuses on coordination chemistry and ligand design for multifunctional switchable complexes.

Table of Contents

1 What are complexes?.- 2 Structure and nomenclature.- 3 What are organometallic compounds?.- 4 Binding models.- 5 Colouring of coordination compounds.- 6 Stability of coordination compounds.- 7 Redox reactions in coordination compounds.- 8 Supramolecular coordination chemistry.- 9 Metal-metal bonding.- 10 Magnetism.- 11 Luminescence in complexes.- 12 Bioinorganic chemistry.- 13 Catalysis.

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“Ein ideales Lehrbuch für Studierende ... Ebenso ist es auch für Lehramtsstudierende geeignet, die sich auf die Abschlußprüfung vorbereiten wollen. Insgesamt eignet es sich auch sehr gut für das Selbststudium, da es in einem sehr verständlichen Stil geschrieben ist.” (Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat., Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Lehrstuhl für Bioanorganische Chemie, RWTH Aachen University)