Concepts and Techniques
As in other areas of chemistry, electron counting is useful for organizing organometallic chemistry. The 18-electron rule is helpful in predicting the stabilities of metal carbonyls and related compounds. Chemical bonding and reactivity in organometallic compounds is often discussed from the perspective of the isolobal principle.
NMR and infrared spectroscopy are common techniques used to determine structure. The dynamic properties of organometallic compounds is often probed with variable-temperature NMR and chemical kinetics.
Organometallic compounds undergo several important reactions:
- oxidative addition and reductive elimination
- transmetalation
- carbometalation
- Hydrometalation
- electron transfer
- beta-hydride elimination
- organometallic substitution reaction
- carbon-hydrogen bond activation
- cyclometalation
- Migratory insertion
- Nucleophilic abstraction
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