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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
   
Transition Metals in Organic Synthesis - AM110005
Title: Transition Metals in Organic Synthesis
Guaranteed by: Department of Organic Chemistry (110)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology
Actual: from 2024 to 2026
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:6
E-Credits: winter s.:6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Tobrman Tomáš doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Annotation
Reactions based on the chemistry of transition metals play an important role both in the chemical industry and in the organic synthesis. This course is divided into two parts. In the first part the students familiarize themselves with basic principles of the chemistry of transition metals, with the reactions in coordination sphere and with chemical properties of common ligands. The second part deals with an application of this chemistry in some important industrial processes and especially in the organic synthesis.
Last update: Tobrman Tomáš (12.05.2026)
Course completion requirements

Successful passing of two seminar tests and oral exam.

Last update: Tobrman Tomáš (12.05.2026)
Literature

Obligatory:

  • Elschenbroich, Christoph, Oliveira, José. Organometallics. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, , xiv, 804 s. s. ISBN 3-527-29390-6.
  • Dirk Steinborn. Fundamentals of Organometallic Catalysis. Federal Republic of Germany: WILEY-VCH, 2012, s. ISBN 978-3-527-32717-1.

Recommended:

  • Crabtree, Robert H.. The organometallic chemistry of the transition metals. New York: Wiley, 2001, 534 s. s. ISBN 0-471-18423-3.
  • Lipshutz, Bruce H.. Organometallics in synthesis, fourth manual. : , , xii, 555 stran s. ISBN 978-1-118-48882-9.

Last update: Tobrman Tomáš (12.05.2026)
Syllabus -

1. Formalism (oxidation state, d-electron configuration, 18-electron rule).

2. Basic types of ligands (s-complexes).

3. Basic types of ligands (p-complexes).

4. Reactions in coordination sphere of transition metals (ligand substitution, oxidative addition, reductive elimination, insertion, transmetallation).

5. Nucleophilic attack on ligands coordinated to transition metals.

6. Electrophilic attack on ligands coordinated to transition metals.

7. Homogeneous catalytic reactions (hydrogenation, hydrosilation, hydrocyanation, alkene and alkyne polymerisation, carbonylation reactions).

8. Synthetic applications of transition metal hydrides, organocuprates.

9. Synthetic applications of complexes from insertion of alkenes and alkynes.

10. Synthetic applications of complexes from oxidative addition followed with insertion of alkene, alkyne and carbon monoxide (cross coupling, Heck reaction).

11. Synthetic applications of transition metal carbonyl complexes.

12. Synthetic applications of transition metal carbene complexes (reactions of nucleophilic and electrophilic carbenes, alkene metathesis, metal-catalysed decomposition of diazo compounds).

13. Synthetic applications of h3-allyl transition metal complexes.

14. Synthetic applications of transition metal h6-arene complexes (Cr(CO)3 and FeCp+ complexes).

Last update: Tobrman Tomáš (12.05.2026)
Registration requirements

Organic Synthesis, Organic Reaction Mechanisms

Last update: Tobrman Tomáš (12.05.2026)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1.5 42
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 4 112
Účast na seminářích 0.5 14
6 / 6 168 / 168
 
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