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| Preface | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Werner Complexes | |
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| The Trans Effect | |
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| Soft Versus Hard Ligands | |
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| The Crystal Field | |
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| The Ligand Field | |
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| Back Bonding | |
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| Electroneutrality | |
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| Types of Ligand | |
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| General Properties of Organometallic Complexes | |
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| The 18-Electron Rule | |
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| Limitations of the 18-Electron Rule | |
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| Electron Counting in Reactions | |
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| Oxidation State | |
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| Coordination Number and Geometry | |
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| Effects of Complexation | |
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| Differences between Metals | |
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| Outer-Sphere Coordination | |
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| Metal Alkyls, Aryls, and Hydrides and Related ?-Bonded Ligands | |
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| Transition Metal Alkyls and Aryls | |
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| Related ?-Bonded Ligands | |
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| Metal Hydride Complexes | |
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| Complexes | |
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| Bond Strengths for Classical ?-Bonding Ligands | |
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| Carbonyls, Phosphine Complexes, and Ligand Substitution Reactions | |
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| Metal Complexes of CO, RNC, CS, and NO | |
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| Phosphines and Related Ligands | |
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| Dissociative Substitution | |
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| Associative Mechanism | |
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| Redox Effects, the I Mechanism, and Rearrangements in Substitution | |
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| Photochemical Substitution | |
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| Steric and Solvent Effects in Substitution | |
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| Complexes of A-Bound Ligands | |
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| Alkene and Alkyne Complexes | |
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| Allyl Complexes | |
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| Diene Complexes | |
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| Cyclopentadienyl Complexes | |
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| Arenes and Other Alicyclic Ligands | |
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| Metalacycles and Isoelectronic and Isolobal Replacement | |
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| Stability of Polyene and Polyenyl Complexes | |
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| Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination | |
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| Concerted Additions | |
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| SN2 Reactions | |
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| Radical Mechanisms | |
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| Ionic Mechanisms | |
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| Reductive Elimination | |
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| ?-Bond Metathesis | |
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| Oxidative Coupling and Reductive Cleavage | |
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| Insertion and Elimination | |
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| Reactions Involving CO | |
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| Insertions Involving Alkenes | |
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| Other Insertions | |
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| ?, ?, ?, and ' Elimination | |
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| Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Addition and Abstraction | |
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| Nucleophilic Addition to CO | |
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| Nucleophilic Addition to Polyene and Polyenyl Ligands | |
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| Nucleophilic Abstraction in Hydrides, Alkyls, and Acyls | |
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| Electrophilic Addition | |
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| Electrophilic Abstraction of Alkyl Groups | |
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| Single-Electron Transfer Pathways | |
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| Reactions of Organic Free Radicals with Metal Complexes | |
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| Homogeneous Catalysis | |
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| Alkene Isomerization | |
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| Alkene Hydrogenation | |
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| Alkene Hydroformylation | |
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| Hydrocyanation of Butadiene | |
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| Alkene Hydrosilation and Hydroboration | |
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| Coupling Reactions | |
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| Surface and Supported Organometallic Catalysis | |
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| Physical Methods in Organometallic Chemistry | |
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| Isolation | |
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| 1H NMR Spectroscopy | |
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| 13C NMR Spectroscopy | |
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| 31P NMR Spectroscopy | |
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| Dynamic NMR | |
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| Spin Saturation Transfer | |
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| T1 and the Nuclear Overhauser Effect | |
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| Isotopic Perturbation of Resonance | |
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| IR Spectroscopy | |
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| Crystallography | |
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| Other Methods | |
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| Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds | |
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| Carbenes | |
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| Carbynes | |
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| Bridging Carbenes and Carbynes | |
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| N-Heterocyclic Carbenes | |
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| Multiple Bonds to Heteroatoms | |
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| Applications of Organometallic Chemistry | |
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| Alkene Metathesis | |
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| Dimerization, Oligomerization, and Polymerization of Alkenes | |
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| Activation of CO and CO2 | |
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| CH Activation | |
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| Organometallic Materials and Polymers | |