Organometallic Chemistry

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Summary: A simple guide to organometallic chemistry
Review: This book is a wonderfully simple guide to organometallic chemistry. It is very easy to read making it a quick reference for inquiries. I would highly recommend this book to any beginning organometallic student.

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Summary: A great book for presenting trz. mets and orgn. metallics...
Review: Very well written, though some more practice problems would be useful (not to mention a solutions manual...) THe book presents 18 electorn complexes and the like very well and gives many journals as back up references... Gives a great summary of organometallic reactions (CO insertion, Associative, Dissociative, etc) and a really solid and historically grounded intro to the field of catalysis... Clearly written, for the most part, but one section on the Trans effect is a bit ambigous, in the sense that they never really talk about HOW to use it... Sure they mention the idea, but they never address the leaving group... People always confused on that section... So that is my gripe in this otherwise excellent book...