Introduction to Coordination Chemistry

Preface
Preamble
1 The Central Atom
1.1 Key Concepts in Coordination Chemistry
1.2 A Who's Who of Metal Ions
1.3 Metals in Molecules
1.4 The Road Ahead
Concept Keys
Further Reading
2 Ligands
2.1 Membership: Being a Ligand
2.2 Monodentate Ligands - The Simple Type
2.3 Greed is Good - Polydentate Ligands
2.4 Polynucleating Species - MolecularBigamists
2.5 A Separate Race -- Organometallic Species
Concept Keys
Further Reading
3 Complexes
3.1 The Central Metal Ion
3.2 Metal-Ligand Marriage
3.3 Holding On -- The Nature of Bonding in MetalComplexes
3.4 Coupling - Polymetallic Complexes
3.5 Making Choices
3.6 Complexation Consequences
Concept Keys
Further Reading
4 Shape
4.1 Getting in Shape
4.2 Forms of Complex Life
4.3 Influencing Shape
4.4 Isomerism - Real 3D Effects
4.5 Sophisticated Shapes
4.6 Defining Shape
Concept Keys
Further Reading
5 Stability
5.1 The Makings of a Stable Relationship
5.2 Complexation - Will it Last?
5.3 Reactions
Concept Keys
Further Reading
6 Synthesis
6.1 Molecular Creation -- Ways to Make Complexes
6.2 Core Metal Chemistry -- Periodic TableInfluences
6.3 Reactions Involving the Coordination Shell
6.4 Reactions Involving the Metal Oxidation State
6.5 Reactions Involving Coordinated
6.6 Organometallic Synthesis
Concept Keys
Further Reading
7 Properties
7.1 Finding Ways to Make Complexes Talk --Investigative Methods
7.2 Getting Physical -- Methods and Outcomes
7.3 Probing the Life of Complexes -- Using PhysicalMethods
Concept Keys
Further Reading
8 A Complex Life
8.1 Life's a Metal Ion
8.2 Metalloproteins and Metalloenzymes
8.3 Doing What Comes Unnaturally
8.4 A Laboratory-free Approach -- In SilicoPrediction
Concept Keys
Further Reading
9 Complexes and Commerce
9.1 Kill or Cure? -- Complexes as Drugs
9.2 How Much? -- Analysing with Complexes
9.3 Profiting from Complexation
9.4 Being Green
9.5 Complex Futures
Concept Keys
Further Reading
Appendix One Nomenclature
Appendix Two Molecular Symmetry: The PointGroup
Index