Elemental Aspects of Transition Metals Pertinent to Organometallic Chemistry: Properties, Periodicity, Curiosities, and Related Main Group Issues

Abstract

This tutorial on transition metal chemistry─sans the lanthanides and actinides─is intended as preliminary information for a high-level undergraduate (UG) inorganic, organometallics, or a comparable first-year graduate (G) course. It features ionization energies (IEs) and comparative nd and (n+1)s orbital energies, electron affinities (EAs), electronegativities (ENs), and covalent radii (cr). Redox properties of appropriate aquo complexes (ΔE°red = E°(red)) are also included due to their impact on critical properties and reactivity, as are pertinent aspects of the main group elements.