Catalysis and Chemical Engineering

Organometallics Chemistry

Organometallic chemistry is that the subject of organometallic compounds, chemical compounds including a minimum of one bond between an atom of an organic molecule and a metal, including alkaline, alkaline earth, and transition metals, and sometimes extended to cover metalloids like boron, silicon, and tin, as well.

Apart from bonds to organyl particles or molecules, bonds to inorganic carbon, like carbon monoxide gas, cyanide, or carbide, are commonly studied to be organometallic also. Some related composites such as transition metal hydrides and metal phosphine complexes are often included in discussions of organometallic compounds, though stringently speaking, they are not significantly organometallic.