1. Title of the Course Analytical Organometallic Chemistry
2.   Course Number CH813/CH814
3. Status of the Course Program Elective
4.   Structure of Credits 3-0-0-3
5.   Offered To PhD Chemistry
6.   Prerequisite Introductory course related to organometallics
7. Course Objective:The course will allow the student to appreciate and understand the vast field of organometallic chemistry. It will allow students to learn the state-of-art development in the field. This course aims to enable the students to understand the structure/bonding and mechanistic aspects of organometallic chemistry in catalysis, materials, and biology.
8. Course Content: The course will focus on developing an advanced understanding of organometallic chemistry. It covers the structure and bonding of organometallic complexes with the help of group theory and molecular orbital description. This course also will give an overview of different types of ligand frameworks. We will discuss the Lewis acidity and capacity of those ligands. Different ligands coordination and chemistry: alkyls, aryls, alkene, alkynes, allyl, carbenes, carbynes, carbonyls, NHC, phosphines, and nitrosyl complexes. The course will also overview reactions like oxidative addition, reductive elimination, insertion and elimination reactions, and agnostic interaction. Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, fluxional molecules, bio-organometallics, and optoelectronics organometallic compounds. Special topics from recent developments.
9. Text book(s):
1. Basic Organometallic Chemistry, Anil Elias and B D Gupta
2. Inorganic Chemistry: Principles of Structure and Reactivity by J. E. Huheey, E. A. Keiter, and R. L. Keiter, 4th ed. Harper Collins 1993
3. Inorganic Chemistry by Gary L Miessler and Donald A. Tarr, 3rd ed.
10. Reference(s):
1. Organometallics, Christoph Elschenbroich
2. Organotransition Metal Chemistry: From Bonding to Catalysis; John F. Hartwig
3. The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals; Robert H. Crabtree
4. Organometallic Chemistry, G O Spessard and G L Miessler
5. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry by F. A. Cotton, G. W. Wilkinson, 5th edition, John-Wiley &amp Sons, 1988.