Dr Luca Rocchigiani, Università degli Studi di Perugia
July, 2024
18 h, 3 CFU
This series of lectures will provide graduate students with a general background on the fundamentals and recent trends in contemporary organometallic chemistry, with a particular focus on the applicative aspects. The first part of the course will review on the general thermodynamic considerations dictating stability and reactivity of metal-carbon bonds, ligand/complexes classification, preparation methods and fundamental properties. In the second part, the most relevant applications of organometallics in organic synthesis and industrial catalysis will be discussed, focusing on mechanistic considerations. In the last part, selected literature examples on the most recent hot topics in organometallic chemistry (e.g. turbo-Grignard reagents, gold chemistry, Frustrated Lewis pairs, organometallic luminescent compounds) will be highlighted and contextualized.