Transition Metal Carbyne Complexes

An advanced state-of-the-art report on the Fischer and Schrock type carbyne complexes and demonstrates their wide application to organic and organometallic synthesis, as well as their considerable role in metathesis. Most of the articles are written by leading researchers in this field, describing their research in their own words. The book discusses in detail the breadth and diversity of metal-carbon multiple bond chemistry of different d and f-block elements. Besides theoretical, structural, photochemical and electrochemical studies, it provides an introduction to heterometallic carbon-bridged compounds to conjugated complexes and polymers derived from metal-carbyne building blocks. An extensive part of this book discusses aspects of olefin metathesis, metal-induced addition, cycloaddition and carbon-carbon coupling reactions by well characterized carbene and carbyne complexes.