Molecular Orbital Theory: Homo- and Hetero-dinuclear molecules. Symmetry elements & bonding in different point groups, e.g., Oh, C4v, C2v). Principles of chemical bonding and molecular structure and their application to the chemistry of main group and transition metals: Chemistry of p-block elements, Structure and bonding of B2H6, BeCl2. Nitrogen-Metal complexes; imido complexes, nitrido complexes. Metal complexes bonded to oxygen. Ligand Field Theory and Electronic Spectroscopy of transition metal compounds: Term symbols, splitting of terms, group theory notations will be explained). MO theory of transition metal compounds in octahedral and tetrahedral geometry: effect of ? and ? bonding. Complexes of ?-donor ligands: carbonyls, nitrosyls with an emphasis towards different bonding modes, geometries and spectroscopic methods for detailed electronic structure. Characterization of transition metal compounds by magnetic measurements and EPR Spectroscopy: Advanced Theoretical implications. Reaction mechanism in transition metal complexes: inner-sphere and outer sphere reaction.
Multiple metal-metal bonding: Quadruple bonding in [Re2Cl8]2-, synthesis structure and MO theory. Quintuple bonding in transition metal complex with an example of low-valent low-coordinate Cr(I) compound Recent work of Phil. Power published in science
A comprehensive treatment of organometallic compounds of the transition metals with the emphasis of structure, bonding and mechanistic aspects: Carbene (Fischer & Schrock) and alkylidene complexes. Metal-Carbon multiple bonding in organometallic complexes. Cyclopentadienyl complexes, Ferrocene. Olefine complexes of the paradigmatic ?-donor complexes (Ziesss salt), MO theory and DCDD model. Isolobal analogy
Contributions to Reversible Dioxygen Binding; Superoxide and Peroxide Dismutases. Oxidases and Oxygenases. Fe, Cu, Mn, Ni in biological systems. Bio-Inspired Oxidation Catalysis: Electronic structure, reactivity, spectroscopic and kinetic characterization of functional model compounds.
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