Table of Contents

P.J. Brothers and P.P. Power, Multiple Bonding Involving the Heavier Main Group 3 Elements Al, Ga, In, and Tl. A.G. Brook and M.A. Brook, The Chemistry of Silenes. I. Hemme and U. Klingebiel, Iminosilanes andRelated Compounds--Synthesis and Reactions. M. Driess, Silicon–Phosphorus and Silicon–Arsenic Multiple Bonds. R. Okazaki and R. West, Chemistry of Stable Disilenes. K.M. Baines and W.G. Stibbs, Stable Doubly Bonded Compounds ofGermanium and Tin. A.J. Ashe, III, and S. Al-Ahmad, Diheteroferrocenes and Related Derivatives of the Group 15 Elements: Arsenic, Antimony, and Bismuth. J.J. Eisch, Boron–Carbon Multiple Bonds. Chapter References. Subject Index. Cumulative List of Contributors 1–36. Cumulative Index 37–39.

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Key Features
* In basic research, organometallics have contributed inter alia to:
* Metal cluster chemistry
* Surface chemistry
* The stabilization of highly reactive species by metal coordination
* Chiral synthesis
* The formulation of multiple bonds between carbon and the other elements and between the elements themselves

Reviews

"This volume continues the series exposition of timely and significant advances in the field." --JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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