Organometallic chemistry - Introduction

Organometallic chemistry can be defined as the chemistry of compounds in which the metal-carbon bond exists. No doubt every chemist's first instinct, whether organic or inorganic, is to think of the organomagnesium compounds discovered by Grignard. In fact, organozinciques were prepared some 40 years earlier by Frankland and would thus be the first organometallic compounds duly identified. Underlying this definition, however, is that of metal. Some do not hesitate to attribute a metallic character to arsenic. They therefore consider that the discovery of organic arsenic compounds by Cadet de Gassicourt, pharmacist to the King, and their use in sympathetic ink, was the origin of organometallic chemistry.

This compendium of organic chemistry is divided into several sections:

- Introduction

- Carbonyl metals

- Substitution reactions

- Hydrogen ligand and corresponding derivatives

- Oxidizing addition

- Insertion reaction

- Metal-carbon double and triple bonds

- Application to homogeneous catalysis

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