Coordination Chemistry: Basics and Current Trends

The Chemistry of Complex Compounds is a textbook for undergraduate chemistry students that provides an easy and comprehensive introduction to the subject, covering basic questions, bonding models, color, stability, redox reactions, metal-metal bond, molecular magnetism, supramolecular chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry. It also offers an outlook into current research areas and trends in coordination chemistry, including luminescence and selected examples of reactions catalyzed by complexes. Birgit Weber is a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bayreuth.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 266 pages
Publication date: 28 March 2023
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

The Chemistry of Complex Compounds is ideally prepared in this textbook for undergraduate chemistry students, providing both an easy and comprehensive introduction to the subject, which is relevant to examinations. It is based on proven lecture notes and assumes no basic knowledge. In addition to basic questions such as "what are complexes" and "what are organometallic compounds", the common bonding models are presented and the colour and stability of coordination compounds are explained, among other things. Other chapters cover redox reactions in complexes, the metal-metal bond, molecular magnetism, supramolecular chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry. As a conclusion, the book gives an outlook into current research areas and trends in coordination chemistry, so that students of higher semesters and PhD students will also benefit from reading it. This includes the luminescence of complexes and selected examples of reactions catalyzed by complexes. Birgit Weber is a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bayreuth. Her research focuses on coordination chemistry and ligand design for multifunctional switchable complexes.

Weight: 485g
Dimension: 240 x 168 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783662664407
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023