1 Introduction ................................................. 1
1.1 Introduction ............................................ 3
J. Derek Woollins
1.2 General Spectroscopic Techniques and Report Writing ..... 5
Petr Kilian
2 Introductory Experiments .................................... 23
2.1 Preparation and Investigation of Some Coordination
Compounds .............................................. 25
Manfred Bochmann
2.2 Gravimetric Analysis of Hexaamminenickel(ll)
Tetrafluoroborate [Ni(NH3)6](BF4)2 ...................... 28
Manfred Bochmann
2.3 Analysis of an Iron(lll) Oxalate Complex ............... 33
Manfred Bochmann
2.4 Characterisation of a Copper Oxalate Complex KaCub
(C2O4)c · dH2O .......................................... 38
Andrew W.G. Platt
2.5 Synthesis of [NH4][BF4] and Synthesis and Titrimetric
Analysis of[Zn(NH3)4][BF4]2 ............................. 40
Michael A. Beckett
2.6 Iron(ll) and Lead(ll) Formates ......................... 43
Francisco J. Arnáiz, Maria R. Pedrosa, and Rafael
Aguado
2.7 Ammonium Dichromate, Chromium(lll) Oxide, Potassium
Chromate and Potassium Tetraperoxochromate(V) .......... 47
Antonin Ružička and Zdirad Žák
2.8 Vanadium Alum: An Experiment in Electrosynthesis ....... 51
David T. Richens
2.9 Linkage Isomerism: An Infra-Red Study .................. 54
David T. Richens and Christopher Clidewell
2.10 Preparation of Copper(l) Iodide ........................ 56
F.J. Arnáiz, M.R. Pedrosa, and S. Arnáiz
2.11 Deduction of the Coordination Mode of BH4 in
Bis(triphenylphosphine) Copper(l) Borohydride
(Ph3P)2CuBH4 ............................................ 58
Andrew W.G. Platt
2.12 Preparation and Identification of a Copper(l)
Complex ................................................ 61
Andrew W.G. Platt
2.13 Synthesis and Characterisation of a Metal Hydride
Complex ................................................ 63
Andrew W.G. Platt
2.14 Reactivity of Triphenylphosphine and Its Oxide
Towards CuCl2 .......................................... 65
Paul F. Kelly and Martin B. Smith
2.15 Synthesis of a Thermochromic Copper Complex ............ 68
lain A. Smellie
2.16 Preparation and Complexation of Tris(3,5-
imethylpyrazoyl)hydroborate ............................ 70
Manfred Bochmann
2.17 Tetraiodotin(IV) and its Triphenylphosphine Complex .... 73
lain A. Smellie and J. Derek Woollins
2.18 Silicon Oxygen Compounds and Siloxane Polymers ......... 75
Paul D. Lickiss
2.19 Preparation and N MR Identification of Two Phosphorus
Esters ................................................. 79
Christopher Clidewell
2.20 Synthesis of Triphenylphosphine Oxide and
Triphenylphosphine Sulfide ............................. 81
Iain Smellie
2.21 Preparation of Sodium Trithionate, Na2S3O6 and
Potassium Trithionate, K2S3O6 ........................... 86
Andrew C. Platt
2.22 The Preparation of Potassium Peroxodisulfate,
K2S2O8 .................................................. 89
Zdirad Žák and Antonin Ružička
2.23 Polyiodides, Me4NIX .................................... 92
Andrew W.G. Platt
2.24 Interhalogen Compounds ................................. 94
Ivan P. Parkin
2.25 Preparation of K[ICl4] ................................. 99
lain Smellie
2.26 Synthesis and Infrared Spectroscopic Characterisation
of Boranes and Cermanes ............................... 101
Ivan P. Parkin
3 Intermediate Experiments
3.1 Metal Acetylacetonate Complexes: Preparation and
Characterisation ...................................... 109
Christopher Glidewell
3.2 Nickel Dihalide Phosphine Complexes ................... 120
Ivan P. Parkin
3.3 Nickel(II) Complexes of Some Schiff Base Ligands ...... 124
Christopher J. Jones
3.4 The Synthesis and Coordination Chemistry of
Macrocyclic Complexes ................................. 131
Martin Schröder
3.5 [Co(dinosar)]Cl3: An Encapsulation Complex Prepared
by a Template Reaction ................................ 136
David J. Otway
3.6 Identification of Stereochemical (Geometrical)
Isomers of [Mo(CO)4(L)2] by Infrared Spectroscopy ..... 139
Michael A. Beckett
3.7 Five Coordinate Complexes: [VO(acac)2] and
[Cr(NH3)6][CuCl5] ...................................... 142
Christopher P. Morley
3.8 Preparation of trans-PtHCl(PPh3)2 and Measurement
ofits 1H, 31P and 195Pt NMR Spectra ..................... 145
William P. Griffith
3.9 [MoO2Br2(H2O)2] · (diglyme) and [MoO2Br2(DMF)2] ......... 149
Francisco J. Arnáiz, Maria R. Pedrosa, and Rafael
Aguado
3.10 Preparation of an Iron Dinitrogen Complex ............. 153
Andrew W.G. Platt
3.11 Preparation of Nitrosyl Complexes of Iron and
Nickel ................................................ 155
Andrew W.G. Platt
3.12 Synthesis and Characterisation of Two Metal-Metal
Bonded Dimolybdenum Complexes ......................... 158
William Levason, Thomas A. Logothetis, and Gill Reid
3.13 Cobalt Complexes of Dioxygen .......................... 167
David T. Richens and Christopher Glidewell
3.14 Ferrocene, (η5-C5H5)2Fe, and its Derivatives ........... 170
J. Derek Woollins
3.15 The Use of Organolithium Reagents in the Preparation
of Ferrocene Derivatives .............................. 173
Ian R. Butler
3.16 Complexes of я-Bonding Arene Ligands .................. 180
Andrew W.G. Platt
3.17 Organotin Chemistry ................................... 183
Kieran С. Molloy and Timothy T. Paget
3.18 Transition Metal-Carbon Bonds in Chemistry and
Biology ............................................... 190
Christopher J. Jones
3.19 Nickel-Catalysed Cross-Coupling of Alkylmagnesium
with Haloarene ........................................ 201
С. Brent Young
3.20 Transition Metal Catalysis ............................ 205
Neil M. Boag
3.21 Nitration of Cobalt(lll) Acetylacetonate .............. 209
David J. Otway
3.22 Phenyllithium and Tetraphenylsilane ................... 211
Petr Kilian
3.23 Synthesis and Reactivity of Tertiary Phosphines ....... 218
Neil M. Boag
3.24 Two-stage Synthesis of Ph2P(O)(CH2)4P(O)Ph2 ............ 222
Andrew G. Platt
3.25 Inorganic Heterocycles: Cyclophosphazenes ............. 226
Josef Novosad and Milan Alberti
3.26 Inorganic (Carbon-Free) Chelate Rings:
A Dithioimidodiphosphinato Ligand and Some of its
Metal Complexes ....................................... 229
lonel Haiduc
3.27 Inorganic (Carbon-Free) Chelate Rings II: Asymmetric
Mixed-Donor P-N-P Ligand and its Palladium Complex .... 234
David J. Birdsall and Josef Novosad
3.28 Amidosulfuric Acid, Trisilveramidosulfate
Monohydrate and SO3 · N (CH3)3 Complexes .............. 239
Antonin Ružička and Zdirad Žák
3.29 Anomalous Paramagnetism in Some Iron(lll) Chelates
Studied by the Evans NMR Method ....................... 243
David J. Otway
3.30 Cubic Molecular Aluminophosphonates ................... 246
Jiri Pinkas
3.31 Preparation and Optical Properties of Zinc Sulfide
Quantum Dots .......................................... 249
Andrew L. Hector
3.32 Four Methods for Analysing First Order Kinetics ....... 255
Véronique Pimienta, Dominique Lavabre, Jean-Claude
Micheau, and Gaston Levy
3.33 Molecular Orbital Calculations of Inorganic
Compounds ............................................. 261
Carole A. Morrison, Neil Robertson, Andrew Turner,
Jano van Hemert, and Jos Koetsier
4 Advanced Experiments
4.1 2,2':6',2" - Terpyridine Complexes and Metal
Directed Reactivity ................................... 271
Edwin С. Constable
4.2 4'-(4-Pyridyl)-2,2':6',2 "-terpyridine: Coordination
to Iron(ll) and Protonation Studies ................... 274
Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin С. Constable, and
Emma L. Dunphy
4.3 Heteronuclear d-f Complexes Containing Binucleating
Ligands ............................................... 283
Francisco J. Arnáiz, Jean-Pierre Costes, and Javier
Carcia-Tojal
4.4 Electronic Characterisation of a Transition Metal
Complex Using Electrochemical UV/Vis and EPR
Techniques ............................................ 287
Lesley J. Yellowlees
4.5 Chlorotris(tert-butylimido)manganese(VII) ............. 290
Andreas A. Danopoulos and Geoffrey Wilkinson
4.6 Tetrakisphosphorane Iminato Complexes of Transition
Metals ................................................ 293
Kurt Dehnicke
4.7 Magnetochemistry Experiments: Exchange Coupling in
Copper(II)-Nickel(II) Bimetallic Complexes and Spin
Transition in Iron Complexes .......................... 297
Eugenio Coronado and J.J. Borrás-Almenar
4.8 Metal-Containing Liquid Crystals. The Synthesis of
trans-bis(4-Alkyl-4'-cyano-1,1 -biphenyl)
dichloroplatinum(ll) and Related Species - The Use
of Melt Syntheses ..................................... 301
Duncan W. Bruce
4.9 Structural, Electrical and Magnetic Properties of
Perovskite Ceramics ................................... 309
Colin Greaves
4.10 Polyoxomolybdate Clusters: Nanoscopic Wheels and
Balls ................................................. 315
Leroy Cronin, Ekkehard Diemann, and Achim Müller
4.11 Reaction of Alkali Metal Polyselenides and
Polytellurides with Croup 6 Metal Carbonyls ........... 322
Joseph W. Kolis
4.12 Chlorothionitrene and Cydothiazeno Complexes of
Tungsten .............................................. 327
Kurt Dehnicke
4.13 Sulfur-Rich Homocycles and Heterocydes: Titanocene
Pentasulfide, cyclo-Heptasulfur and 1,2,3,4,5,6,7-
Heptathionane ......................................... 330
Jörg Albertsen and Ralf Steudel
4.14 N-Ferrocenyl Amine and Some Reactive Derivatives ...... 334
Max Herberhold, Heidi E. Maisel, and Bernd
Wrackmeyer
4.15 l,l'-Bis(trimethylsilylamino)ferrocene - A Useful
Precursor to l,n-Diaza-[n]ferrocenophanes ............. 341
Max Herberhold, Elena V. Klimkina, and Bernd
Wrackmeyer
4.16 Organometallic Molybdenum Compounds ................... 353
Manfred Bochmann and Petr Klian
4.17 Migratory Insertion Reactions in Organo Transition-
Metal Chemistry ....................................... 364
Mark J. Winter
4.18 A Transition-Metal Alkylidyne Complex ................. 369
Stephen Anderson, Darren Cook, and Anthony F. Hill
4.19 The Synthesis of η6-Arenetricarbonyl Chromium(0)
Complexes ............................................. 372
David A. Widdowson
4.20 Preparation of the Iron Tricarbonyl Complex of
Methyl-2-Acetamidoacrylate ............................ 375
M. Elena Lasterra-Sanchez and Susan E. Gibson
4.21 Halfsandwich Carbonyl Vanadium Complexes .............. 377
Max Herberhold and Matthias Schrepfermann
4.22 Covalent and Ionic Metallocene Hexafluoroarsenate
Complexes ............................................. 383
Inis C. Tornieporth-Oetting and Thomas M. Klapötke
4.23 The Preparation of rac-Ethylene-1,
2-bis(1-indenyl)zirconium Dichloride and Dibenzyl
Complexes ............................................. 386
Manfred Bochmann and Simon J. Lancaster
4.24 One-Pot Preparation of Ru3(CO)12 from
RuCl3 · 3H20 .................... 391
Guy Lavigne, Catherine Saccavini, and Remi Chauvin
4.25 Synthesis of Well-defined Organometallic
Hydroxides: [LCaOH]2, LAI(Me)OH and LCeOH ............. 396
Herbert W. Roesky
4.26 Alumazene-Inorganic Benzene Analogue .................. 402
Jiri Pinkas
4.27 Preparation of [Bu4N][B3H8] and the Formation of
RuH[B3H8](CO)(PPh3)2 ................................... 405
Anthony F. Hill and J. Derek Woollins
4.28 Vacuum Line Techniques: Preparation of SiF4 and
SiF4(C5H5N)2 ........................................... 409
J. Derek Woollins
4.29 Amino- and Nitrotetrazoles: Nitrogen-rich
Heterocycles .......................................... 413
Davin С. Piercey and Thomas M. Klapötke
4.30 Ammonium 5-Nitro-1H-Tetrazolate-Hemihydrate ........... 417
Franz Xaver Steemann and Thomas M. Klapötke
4.31 Arsenium Cations: Carbene Analogues ................... 420
Neil Burford and Trenton M. Parks
4.32 Preparation and Structure of the Acetyl Chloride-
Antimony Pentachloride Complex ........................ 425
Peter N. Gates
4.33 Preparation and Some Reactions of the Folded P2N4S2
Ring .................................................. 428
Tristram Chivers, Daniel D. Doxsee, and Robert
W. Hilts
4.34 Sulfur-Nitrogen Heterocycles and [SNBr0.4]x Polymer .... 432
J. Derek Woollins
4.35 Selenium-Nitrogen and Tellurium-Nitrogen Compounds .... 436
Herbert W. Roesky and Judith Gindl
4.36 Nitride Chlorides of Selenium(lll) and Selenium(IV):
Se2NCl3 and Se2NCl5 .................................... 440
Kurt Dehnicke
4.37 The Synthesis and Ring-Opening Polymerisation
Behaviour of a [l]Silaferrocenophane .................. 444
Ian Manners
Index ......................................................... 447
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