Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry. III / edited by Edwin C. Constable , Gerard Parkin and Lawrence Que

1.01 -A Short History of Coordination Compounds: The Journey From Plant Extracts to the Present Day 1.01.1 Introduction 1.01.2 Coordination Chemistry Before Documented History 1.01.2.1 Color 1.01.3 Into Documented History 1.01.3.1 An Early Copper Complex 1.01.3.2 The Color Blue 1.01.3.3 Noble Metal Chemistry in the 18th Century CE 5058 1.01.3.4 Citizen Tassaert and the Genesis of Cobalt Coordination Chemistry 1.01.3.5 The Name's the Thing 1.01.3.6 It's All to Do With Color 1.01.4 Valence and Werner 1.01.4.1 Valence-Not as Simple as You Might Think 1.01.4.2 The Werner-Jørgensen Controversy-Different Views on Variable Valence 1.01.4.3 Werner-Primary and Secondary Valence 1.01.5 Into the 20th Century CE-A Time of Techniques, Models, and Methods 1.01.5.1 The Quantification of Color-Absorption Spectroscopy 1.01.5.2 Crystal Field Theory: A Successful Model With No Basis in Chemistry 5058 1.01.5.3 From Crystal Field to Ligand Field 1.01.5.4 Linus Pauling, The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Valence Bond Approach 1.01.5.5 The Chelate Effect 1.01.5.6 Ligands 1.01.5.7 Magnetism-From a Simple Model to Profound Complexity 1.01.5.8 Good Vibrations 1.01.5.9 Chemistry Gets Heavy-The Evolution of Mass Spectrometric Techniques 1.01.5.10 Looking Into the Soul of Molecules-NMR Spectroscopic Methods 1.01.5.11 Electrons Spin Too! 1.01.5.12 Bragging About It-The Evolution of Crystallography as a Chemical Tool 1.01.6 Conclusions and Prospects References 5058 1.02 -Fundamentals: Ligands, Complexes, Synthesis and Structure: An Introduction 1.02.1 Introduction 1.02.2 Organization of this Volume 1.02.3 Section 1 Ligands 1.02.3.1 Neutral Ligands 1.02.3.2 Anionic Ligands 1.02.3.3 Pincer Ligands 1.02.3.4 Redox-Active Ligands 1.02.3.5 Coordination Chemistry of Main Group Compounds 1.02.4 Section 2 Reactivity and Structure of Complexes of Small Molecules 1.02.5 Section 3 Coordination Polymers and Coordination Frameworks 1.02.6 Section 4 Synthetic Methods and Characterization Techniques References 5058 1.03 -Phosphorus Ligands 1.03.1 Brief History 1.03.2 Atropoisomeric Diphosphines 1.03.2.1 Introduction 1.03.2.2 Synthesis 1.03.2.3 Property 1.03.2.4 Coordination Chemistry 1.03.2.5 Applications in Catalysis 1.03.3 P-Stereogenic Diphosphines and Diphospholanes 1.03.3.1 Introduction 1.03.3.2 Synthesis and Property 1.03.3.3 Coordination Chemistry and Applications in Catalysis 1.03.4 P-Stereogenic 2,3-Dihydrobenzo[1,3]Oxaphospholes 1.03.4.1 Introduction 1.03.4.2 Synthesis 1.03.4.3 Coordination Chemistry and Applications in Catalysis 500 1.03.5 Josiphos Ligands