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Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry

Chemistry of metal complexes and metal-carbon bonds.

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Almanac Molecules Arranged Like Vertices
  • How did Werner deduce three-dimensional molecular structures without any instrument capable of seeing them directly?
  • What evidence from isomers and optical behavior supported Werner's octahedral bonding model?
  • Why did it take twenty years for chemists to accept Werner's coordination theory?
  • Where does coordination chemistry show up in biology and medicine today?
Almanac An Iron Atom Wears Two Rings at Once
  • How was ferrocene first discovered, and why did its stability puzzle chemists in 1951?
  • What structural model did Fischer and Wilkinson independently propose to explain ferrocene's bonding?
  • Why did the sandwich-compound bonding model have no real precedent in organic chemistry at the time?
  • What industrial applications eventually grew out of the organometallic chemistry that ferrocene's structure opened up?
Almanac A Byproduct Grew Molecular Hands
  • What accidental byproduct did Charles Pedersen notice in 1967 that led to crown ether chemistry?
  • What modern applications trace back to Pedersen's discovery of crown ethers?