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Lecture Part Transition Metal Chemitry (60h)
- Catalytic Hydroformylation
- Catalytic Hydrogenation
- Catalytic Olefin polymerisation
- Catalytic Hydrocyanation, Hydrosilylation and Hydroamination
- Alkene and Alkyne Metathesis
Lecture Part Main Group Chemistry (60h)
- Introduction to heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy (II) (7Li, 11B, 19F, 29Si and 31P; hetero- and homonuclear E,E’ couplings; structure discussion)
- Boron compounds: boranes, hydroboration, trihaloboranes, iminoboranes, borazine, boron clusters, carboboranes
- Aluminium compounds: synthesis and reaction of MAO (mechanism of Ziegler-Natta polymerisation)
- Gallium and Indium compounds as single-source precursors for MOCVD
- Silicon compounds: Diorganodichlorosilanes (Wacker process); silylenes, disilenes, polysilanes; silanols, and polysiloxanes
- Tin compounds: Triorganylstannanes (hydrostannylation)
- Phosphorus compounds: synthesis of PIII ligands (complexes, use in catalyses), Aminophosphanes, phosphazenes, polyphosphazenes; Wittig ylides (organic C1 building blocks); phospha alkenes and –alkylynes as new P-C building blocks
Lab course (optional)
- Syntheses and reactivity studies of molecular transition metal and main group element compounds under inert gas conditions (Schlenk, vacuum line and glove box techniques)
- Training of purification and characterisation methods under strict anaerobic conditions
- Purification methods: vacuum distillation, vacuum sublimation, crystallisation, column chromatography under strict anaerobic conditions
- Characterization methods: heteronuclear NMR-, IR-, Raman-, and UV-Vis spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, cyclic voltammetry, single-crystal X-ray diffraction
- SciFinder/Beilstein searches
- Houben/Weyl (Science of Synthesis)
- Chemical Abstracts
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