1 General topics
1.1 Some historical facts
1.2 Basic data
1.3 Electronic structures
1.4 Molecular orbitals of some representative complexes
1.5 Main reaction types
1.6 Problems
2 Main types of organometallic derivatives
2.1 Metal hydrides
2.2 Metal carbonyls
2.3 Metal alkyls and aryls
2.4 The zirconium-carbon bond in organic synthesis
2.5 Metal carbenes
2.6 Metal carbynes
2.7 Some representative p complexes
2.7.1 h4-Diene-iron-tricarbonyls
2.7.2 Ferrocene
2.7.3 h6-Arene-chromium-tricarbonyls
2.8 Problems
3 Homogeneous catalysis
3.1 Catalytic hydrogenation
3.2 Asymmetric hydrogenation
3.3 Hydrosilylation, hydrocyanation
3.4 Alkene hydroformylation
3.5 Alkene polymerization
3.6 Alkene metathesis
3.7 Palladium in homogeneous catalysis
3.8 Gold in homogeneous catalysis
3.9 Problems