Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy is probably the most powerful tool available for structure determination of organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds. It is also used by chemists to study mechanisms, ...

Organometallic chemistry is a branch of coordination chemistry and deals with compounds which have at least one metal-carbon bond. Since metals are more electropositive than carbon it is considered that the metal-carbon ...

An atom consists of a very small (about 10–10 m in radius), dense and positively charged nucleus and negatively charged electrons. The nucleus consists of protons (p) and neutrons (n); ...

Carbon monoxide is a good π-acceptor and the M-C bond in metal carbonyls [M(CO)n ] has a significant π character. Thus, the M-C bond is strengthened and the carbon oxygen bond is weakened with the increase in back bonding.

Metathesis of simple salts is a double replacement reaction as shown below. AX + BY → AY + BX In Greek, “Metathesis” is known as the change of position or transposition. Olefin metathesis (OM) is the catalytic scission ...

Let’s begin with something everyone knows, SI units! Everyone of us applies them, but do you know the concept behind its definitions? Very recently definitions of SI units were changed and they are now defined by ...

Organic chemistry is basically the study of synthesis, reactions, properties, and structures of carbon-containing compounds. Organic reactions can be classified into four main types: addition, elimination (E), substitution, ...

Coordinatively unsaturated metal centres (Mn+) (valence electron count, VEC<18) may undergo oxidative addition reactions to form saturated metal complexes by cleaving the X-Y bond of a molecule (e.g. H2 , O2 , ...