Online Lectures

Indroductory Material - Review of Basic Concepts: 18 Electron Rule Green-Davies-Mingos Rules Review of ligand types; s, p donors and acceptors

Lecture 1 - Oxidative-addition reactions, including orthometallation, Carbon-hydrogen bond activation

Lecture 2 - Migration reactions, including alkyl and hydride migrations

Lecture 3 - Reductive elimination reactions, including a and b-hydride elimination's

Lecture 4 - Homogeneous Catalytic Reactions: Olefin hydrogenation, Hydroformylation, Acetic acid synthesis, Olefin metathesis

More Info on Catalysis - Latest advances in Olefin Polymerisation Catalysis

an online chemistry lecture course © Karl Harrison,
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford 1998