Landmarks in Organo-Transition Metal Chemistry: A Personal View

Landmarks in Organo-Transition Metal Chemistry: A Personal View
ISBN-10
0387098488
ISBN-13
9780387098487
Category
Science
Pages
348
Language
English
Published
2008-12-16
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
Helmut Werner

Description

Since the discovery of ferrocene and the sandwich-type complexes, the development of organometallic chemistry took its course like an avalanche and became one of the scientific success stories of the second half of the twentieth century. Based on this development, the traditional boundaries between inorganic and organic chemistry gradually disappeared and a rebirth of the nowadays highly important field of homogeneous catalysis occurred. It is fair to say that despite the fact that the key discovery, which sparked it all off, was made more than 50 years ago, organometallic chemistry remains a young and lively discipline.

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