Lecture 33: Pi Bonded Ligands

Read section 23.11 - 23.15 from your textbook.

Online Hypertextbook

Take this opportunity to familiarize yourself with Rod Toreki's Hypertextbook in Organometallic Chemistry. For today's reading, pay special attention to the following:
  1. Alkene complexes

  2. Allyl complexes

  3. Alkyne complexes

  4. Cyclopentadienyl complexes

Electronic Bookkeeping

We've talked previously about the number of electrons donated to the metal by pi bonded ligands and the charge on them for the oxidation state formalism: