The Surface Scientist's Guide to Organometallic Chemistry

Offers concepts from the fields of organometallic and coordination chemistry that are becoming important to understanding chemisorption systems. Reviews the relevant chemical principles required to understand the bonding in metal complexes in general. Includes the basic chemistry needed by workers in the field of surface science. Presents organometallic and coordination chemistry in terms of the variety of ligands studied, and their various modes of bonding to metal centers. Highlights the research issues common to both organometallic chemistry and surface science. Also addresses the issue of metal atom-ligand bonding versus metal surface-ligand bonding. Describes the benefits to surface science research of calculations carried out on metal complexes as well as a method for applying these calculations to surfaces.