Energetics of Organometallic Species: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Curia, Portugal, September 3-13, 1991 Book

Foreword. 1. Historical Perspective of Organometallic Thermochemistry; H.A. Skinner. 2. Combustion Calorimetry of Organometallic Compounds; G. Pilcher. 3. Organo-f-Element Thermochemistry, Implications for Reactivity and Bonding from Metal-Ligand Bonding Energetics; M.A. Giardello, W.A. King, S.P. Nolan, M. Porchia, C. Sishta, T.J. Marks. 4. The Role of Bond Energies in Hydrocarbon Activation by Transition Metal Centers; W.D. Jones, R.M. Chin, L. Dong, S.B. Duckett, E.T. Hessell. 5. Rh-C Bond Dissociation Enthalpies for Organometallic Derivatives of Rhodium Porphyrins; B.B. Wayland. 6. Solution Thermochemistry of Organometallic Compounds Using Photoacoustic Calorimetry: Enthalpies of Ligand Exchange, Metal-Ligand Bonds, and Metal-Solvent Interactions; T.J. Burkey. 7. Electrochemistry of some Organic and Organometallic Radicals and their Application in Thermochemical Cycles; D.D.M. Wayner. 8. Derivative Cyclic Voltammetry: Applications in the Investigation of the Energetics of Organometallic Electrode Reactions; M. Tilset. 9. The Use of Calorimetric and Sublimation Techniques to Study Bond Properties in Organometallic Compounds; A.S. Carson. 10. Estimating Enthalpies of Sublimation of Hydrocarbons; J.S. Chickos, D.G. Hesse, J.F. Liebman. 11. Derivation of Thermodynamic Quantities from Kinetic Measurements in Gas Phase Silane Chemistry; R. Walsh. 12. Bond Enthalpy Transferability — Is It Achievable? J.A. Connor. 13. Estimates of Thermochemical Data for Organometallic Compounds; J.A. Martinho Simões. 14. Bonding and Solvation Energetics for Organometallic Gas-Phase Molecules and Ions: Experimental Approaches and Thermodynamic Insights; D.E. Richardson. 15. Gas-Phase Acidities of Transition-Metal Carbonyl and Trifluorophosphine Hydrides; A.E. Stevens Miller, T.M. Miller. 16. Bond Strengths in Transition Metal Carbonyl Anions; L.S. Sunderlin, R.R. Squires. 17. Fundamental Gas Phase Studies of the Mechanism and Thermochemistry of Organometallic Reactions; J.L. Beauchamp, P.A.M. van Koppen. 18. Guided Ion Beam Studies of the Energetics of Organometallic Species; P.B. Armentrout, D.E. Clemmer. 19. A Guide to Density Functional Theory and its Practical Applications to the Energetics of Organometallic Species; T. Ziegler. 20. Theoretical Models for Organometallic Reactions; M.R.A. Blomberg, P.E.M. Siegbahn, M. Svensson, J. Wennerberg. List of Posters and Contributed Oral Presentations. Subject Index.