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Some 20 years ago, I was privileged to share in writing a book on the descriptive chemistry of the 4d, 5d, 4f and 5f metals that included these eight elements within its compass (S.A. Cotton and F.A. Hart, The Heavy Transition Elements, Macmillan, 1975). This volume shares the same aim of covering the descriptive chemistry of silver, gold and the six platinum metals in some detail at a level suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate study. It does not attempt to be a comprehensive treatise on the chemistry of these metals. It attempts to fill a slot between the general text and the in-depth review or monograph. The organometallic chemistry is confined to a-bonded com pounds in normal oxidation states; compounds with IT-bonding ligands are generally excluded. Their inclusion would have increased the length of the book considerably and, moreover, their recent chemistry has been extensively and expertly reviewed in the new Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, II, eds G. Wilkinson, F.G.A. Stone and E.W. Abel, Pergamon, Oxford, 1995.
List of contents
1 Ruthenium and osmium.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The elements and uses.- 1.3 Halides.- 1.4 Oxides and related anions.- 1.5 Other binary compounds.- 1.6 Aqua ions.- 1.7 Compounds of ruthenium(0).- 1.8 Compounds of ruthenium(II) and (III).- 1.9 Complexes of ruthenium(IV).- 1.10 Complexes of osmium(0).- 1.11 Osmium complexes in oxidation states (II-IV).- 1.12 Compounds in high oxidation states.- 1.13 Simple alkyls and aryls.- 2 Rhodium and iridium.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The elements and uses 78 2.2.1 Extraction.- 2.3 Halides and halide complexes.- 2.4 Oxides, hydrides and other binary compounds.- 2.5 Aqua ions and simple salts.- 2.6 Compounds of rhodium(0).- 2.7 Compounds of rhodium(I).- 2.8 Rhodium(II) complexes.- 2.9 Rhodium(III) complexes.- 2.10 Iridium (I) complexes.- 2.11 Dioxygen complexes.- 2.12 Iridium(II) complexes.- 2.13 Iridium(III) complexes.- 2.14 Iridium(IV) complexes.- 2.15 Iridium(V) complexes.- 2.16 Nitrosyls of iridium and rhodium.- 2.17 Simple alkyls and aryls of iridium and rhodium.- 3 Palladium and platinum.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 The elements and uses.- 3.3 Halides.- 3.4 Other binary complexes.- 3.5 Aqua ions.- 3.6 Palladium(O) and platinum(O) compounds.- 3.7 Palladium(I) and platinum(I) compounds.- 3.8 Complexes of palladium(II) and platinum(II).- 3.9 Palladium(III) and platinum(III).- 3.10 Complexes of platinum(IV).- 3.11 Complexes of palladium(IV).- 3.12 The ?-bonded organometallics of palladium(IV) and platinum(IV).- 3.13 Anti-tumour activity of platinum complexes.- 3.14 Bond lengths in palladium and platinum analogues.- 4 Silver and gold.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 The elements and uses.- 4.3 Halides.- 4.4 Oxides and other binary compounds.- 4.5 Aqua ions.- 4.6 Silver(I) complexes.- 4.7 Silver(II) complexes.- 4.8 Silver(III) complexes.- 4.9Gold(-I) complexes.- 4.10 GoId(I) complexes.- 4.11 Gold(II) complexes.- 4.12 Gold(III) complexes.- 4.13 Gold(IV) complexes.- 4.14 Gold(V) complexes.- 4.15 Organometallic compounds of silver.- 4.16 Organometallic compounds of gold.- 4.17 Gold cluster complexes.- 4.18 Relativistic effects in gold chemistry.- 4.19 Aurophilicity.- 4.20 Silver and gold compounds in medicine.- 4.21 Mössbauer spectroscopy of gold compounds.- References.
