Elemental Aspects of Transition Metals Pertinent to Organometallic Chemistry: Properties, Periodicity, Curiosities, and Related Main Group Issues

This tutorial on transition metal chemistrysans
the lanthanides
and actinidesis intended as preliminary information for a
high-level undergraduate (UG) inorganic, organometallics, or a comparable
first-year graduate (G) course. It features ionization energies (IEs)
and comparative nd and (n+1)s orbital energies, electron affinities
(EAs), electronegativities (ENs), and covalent radii (cr). Redox properties of appropriate aquo complexes (ΔE°red = E°(red)) are
also included due to their impact on critical properties and reactivity,
as are pertinent aspects of the main group elements.