Publisher's Synopsis
A fundamental tenet of modern coordination chemistry is that ligands coordinated to a metal ion cause a perturbation of metal-centred energy levels. It follows, a priori that the ligand-centred energy levels must also be perturbed. This book is concerned with the chemical consequences of this aspect of metal-ligand interaction, and is aimed at a broad range of biochemists and chemists, concerned with the molecular origins of metal-catalysis, as well as synthetic organic chemists interested in novel reactivity of organic substrates and industrial chemists utilising metal-directed reactions.;The author prepares the ground with an introductory chapter, before explaining Ligand Field models, possible types of M-L interaction, as well as ground state effects and transition state effects.;Further chapters cover structural ground stroke effects, with spectroscopic and structural evidence, and describe effects on the reactivity. Also covered are acidity of coordinated water and the reactivity of coordinated ligands due to Lewis acidity of the metal ion.
