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

This tutorial on transition metal chemistry & horbar;sans the lanthanides and actinides & horbar;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 (c(r)). Redox properties of appropriate aquo complexes (Delta E degrees(red) = E degrees(red)) are also included due to their impact on critical properties and reactivity, as are pertinent aspects of the main group elements.