Table of Contents:
  • Importance of metal-ligand bond energies in organometallic chemistry: an overview / Tobin J. Marks
  • Periodic trends in transition metal bonds to hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen / Peter B. Armentrout
  • Organometallic reaction energetics from product kinetic energy release distributions / Petra A.M. van Koppen, Michael T. Bowers, J.L. Beauchamp, and David V. Dearden
  • Methods for determining metal-ligand and metal-metal bond energies using fourier transform mass spectrometry / Ben S. Freiser
  • Gas-phase thermochemistry of organometallic and coordination complex ions / David E. Richardson, Charles S. Christ, Jr., Paul Sharpe, Matthew F. Ryan, and John R. Eyler
  • Ionization energy-bond energy relationships in organometallic chemistry / Dennis L. Lichtenberger and Ann S. Copenhaver
  • Thermodynamics and kinetics of transition metal-alkyl homolytic bond dissociation processes / Jack Halpern
  • Cage pair intermediates and activation parameters / T. Koenig, T.W. Scott, and James A. Franz
  • Thermodynamic and kinetic studies of binding nitrogen and hydrogen to complexes of chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten / Alberto A. Gonzalez, Kai Zhang, Shakti L. Mukerjee, Carl D. Hoff, G. Rattan K. Khalsa, and Gregory J. Kubas
  • Thermodynamic studies of the hydrogenation and reductive coupling of carbon monoxide by rhodium(II) porphyrins / Bradford B. Wayland, Virginia L. Coffin, Alan E. Sherry, and William R. Brennen
  • Metal and ancillary coordination effects on organolanthanide-ligand bond enthalpies : implications for bonding and reaction patterns / Steven P. Nolan, David Stern, David Hedden, and Tobin J. Marks
  • Novel extensions of the electrostatic covalent approach and calorimetric measurements to organometallic systems / Russell S. Drago
  • Metal-ligand bond dissociation energies in CpMn(CO)₂L and Cr(CO)₅(olefin) complexes / Jane K. Klassen, Matthias Selke, Amy A. Sorensen, and Gilbert K. Yang
  • Metal-carbon and metal-hydrogen bond dissociation enthalpies from classical and nonclassical calorimetric studies / A.R. Dias, H.P. Diogo, D. Griller, M.E. Minas da Piedade, and J.A. Martinho Simões
  • Adsorbate-induced restructuring of surfaces : surface thermodynamic puzzle / G.A. Somorjai
  • Acid sites on chemically modified molybdenum surfaces / Peter C. Stair
  • Absolute electronegativity, hardness, and bond energies / Ralph G. Pearson
  • Gas-phase chemistry of first-row transition metal ions with nitrogen-containing compounds : theoretical and experimental investigations / A. Mavridis, K. Kunze, J.F. Harrison, and J. Allison
  • Periodic trends in the bond energies of transition metal complexes : density functional theory / Tom Ziegler and Vincenzo Tschinke.