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The Coordination Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds

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In this chapter we shall be mainly concerned with interactions of the Lewis acid-base type. Most of these interactions will involve the organometallic compound acting as a Lewis acid and receiving electrons from some donor species. It is also possible, in a formal sense, to regard an organometallic compound RM as arising from combination of the base R and acid M+. These, and related, ideas have considerable impact on structure and reactivity in organometallic chemistry. The aim of this chapter is, primarily, to show that coordination is a concept which can be used to unify and systematise much material that occurs elsewhere in this book.

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Parkins, A.W., Poller, R.C. (1986). The Coordination Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds. In: An Introduction to Organometallic Chemistry. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18198-8_6

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