Klassisches Lehrbuch plus neue Experimente mit modernen Methoden: Das ist ein idealer Vorlesungsbegleiter! Durch die Flexibilität der Aufgaben findet hier jeder etwas, vom Studienanfänger bis zum Doktoranden. Anhand von Versuchsvorschriften, die dem Forschungsalltag in der anorganischen Chemie entnommen sind, werden neueste spektroskopische Verfahren und andere Untersuchungsmethoden erklärt. A classic brought up to date with new experiments using the latest methods. Modern spectroscopic techniques and current research topics make this an incomparable resource for undergraduate and graduate students, presenting a fascinating approach to inorganic chemistry by providing experiments that resemble real research. 1. Introducton. 1.1 Introduction (J. Derek Woollins). 1.2 General Spectroscopic Techniques and Report Writing (Petr Kilian). 2. Introductory Experiments. 2.1 Preparation and Investigation of Some Coordination Compounds (Manfred Bochmann). 2.2 Gravimetric Analysis of Hexaamminenickel (II) Tetrafluoroborate [Ni(NH3)6](BF4)2 (Manfred Bochmann). 2.3 Analysis of an Iron(III) Oxalate Complex (Manfred Bochmann). 2.4 Characterisation of a Cooper Oxalate Complex KaCub(C2O4)c   ·  dH2O (Andrew W. G. Platt). 2.5 Synthesis of [NH4][BF4] and Synthesis and Titrimetric Analysis of [Zn(NH3)4][BF4]2  (Michael A. Beckett). 2.6 Iron (II) and Lead (II) Formates (Francisco J. Arnáiz, María R. Pedrosa, and Rafal Aguado). 2.7 Ammonium Dichromate, Chromium (III) Oxide, Potassium Chromate and Potassium Tetraperoxochromate(V) (Antonín Ru i ka and Zdirad ák). 2.8 Vanadium Alum: An Experiment in Electrosynthesis (David T. Richens). 2.9 Linkage Isomerism: An Infra Red Study (David T. Richens and Christopher Glidewell). 2.10 Preparation of Cooper (I) Iodide (F. J. Arnáiz, M. R. Pedrosa, and S. Arnáiz). 2.11 Deduction of the Coordination Mode of BH4 in Bis(triphenylphosphine) Copper(I) Borohydride (Ph3P)2CuBH4 (Andrew W. G. Platt). 2.12 Preparation and Identification of a Copper (I) Complex (Andrew W. G. Platt). 2.13 Synthesis and Characteristics of a Metal Hydride Complex (Andrew W. G. Platt). 2.14 Reactivity of Triphenylphosphine and Its Oxide Towards CuCl2 (Paul F. Kelly and Martin B. Smith). 2.15 Synthesis of a Thermochromic Copper Complex (Iain A. Smellie). 2.16 Preparation and Complexation of Tris(3,5 dimethypyrazoyl)hydroborate (Manfred Bochmann). 2.17 Tetraiodotin(IV) and its Triphenylphosphine Complex (Iain A. Smellie and J. Derek Woollins). 2.18 Silicon Oxygen Compounds and Siloxane Polymers (Paul D. Lickiss). 2.19 Preparation and NMR Identification of Two Phosphorus Esters (Christopher Glidewell). 2.20 Synthesis of Tropheylphosphine Oxide and Triphenylphosphine Sulfide (Iain Smellie). 2.21 Preparation of Sodium Trithionate, Na2S3O6 and Potassium Trithionate, K2S3O6 (Andrew G. Platt). 2.22 The Preparation of Potassium Peroxodisulfate, K2S2O8 (Zdirad ák and Antonín Ru i ka). 2.23 Polyiodides, Me4Nix (Andrew W. G. Platt). 2.24 Interhalogen Compounds (Ivan P. Parkin). 2.25 Preparation of K[ICI4] (Iain Smellie). 2.26 Synthesis and Infrared Spectroscopic Characterisation of Boranes and Germanes (Ivan P. Parkin). 3. Intermediate Experiments. 3.1 Metal Acetylacetonate Complexes: Preparation and Characterisation (Christopher Glidewell). 3.2 Nickel Dihalide Phosphine Complexes (Ivan P. Parkin). 3.3 Nickel(II) Complexes of Some Schiff Base Ligands (Christopher J. Jones). 3.4 The Synthesis and Coordination Chemistry of Macrocyclic Complexes (Martin Schröder). 3.5 [Co(dinosaur)]Cl3: An Encapsulation Complex Prepared by a Template Reaction (David J. Otway). 3.6 Identification of Stereochemical (Geometrical) Isomers of [Mo(CO)4(L)2] by Infrared Spectroscopy (Michael A. Beckett). 3.7 Five Coordinate Complexes: [VO(acac)2] and [Cr(NH3)6][CuCl5] (Christopher P. Morley). 3.8 Preparation of trans PtHCI(PPh3)2 and Measurement of its 1H, 31P and 195Pt NMR Spectra (William P. Griffith). 3.9 [MoO2Br2(H2O)2] . (diglyme) and  [MoO2Br2(DMF)2] (Francisco J. Arnáiz, María R. Pedrosa , and Rafael Aguado). 3.10 Preparation of an Iron Dinitrogen Complex (Andrew W. G. Platt). 3.11 Preparation of Nitrosyl Complexes of Iron and Nickel (Andrew W. G. Platt). 3.12 Synthesis and Characterisation of Two Metal Metal Bonded Dimolybdenum Complexes (William Levason, Thomas A Logothetis, and Gill Reid). 3.13 Cobalt Complexes of Dioxygen (David T. Richens and Christopher Glidewell). 3.14 Ferrocene, ( 5 c5H5)2Fe, and its Derivatives (J. Derek Woollins). 3.15 The Use of Organolithium Reagents in the Preparation of Ferrocene Derivatives (Ian R. Butler). 3.16 Complexes of Bonding Arene Ligands (Andrew W. G. Platt). 3.17 Organotin Chemistry (Kieran C. Molloy ad Timothy T. Paget). 3.18 Transition Metal Carbon Bonds in Chemistry and Biology (Christopher J. Jones). 3.19 Nickel Catalysed Cross Coupling of Alkylmagnesium with Haloarene (G. Brent Young). 3.20 Transition Metal Catalysis (Neil M. Boag). 3.21 Nitration of Cobalt(III) Acetylacetonate (David J. Otway). 3.22 Phenyllithium and Tetraphenylsilane (Petr Kilian). 3.23 Synthesis and Reactivity of Tertiary Phosphines (Neil M. Boag). 3.24 Two stage Synthesis of Ph2P(O)(CH2)4P(O)Ph2 (Andrew G. Platt).   3.25 Inorganic Heterocycles: Cyclophosphazenes (Josef Novosad and Milan Alberti). 3.26 Inorganic (Carbon Free) Chelate Rings: A Dithioimidodiphosphinato Ligand and Some of its Metal Complexes (Ionel Haiduc). 3.27 Inorganic (Carbon Free) Chelate Rings II:  Asymmetric Mixed Donor P N P Ligand and its Palladium Complex (David J. Birdsall and Josef Novasad). 3.28 Amidosulfiric Acid, Trisilveramidosulfate Monhydrate and SO3   . N (CH3)3 Complexes (Antonín Ru i ka and Zdirad ák). 3.29 Anomalous Paramegnetism in Some Iron (III) Chelates Studies by the Evans NMR Method (David J. Otway). 3.30 Cubic Molecular Aluminophisphonates (Jiri Pinkas). 3.31 Preparation and Optical Properties of Zinc Sulfide Quantum Dots (Andrew L. Hector). 3.32 Four Methods for Analysing First Order Kinetics (Véronique Pimienta, Dominique Lavabre, Jean Claude Micheau, and Gaston Levy). 3.33 Molecular Orbital Calculations of Inorganic Compounds (Carole A. Morrison, Neil Robertson, Andrew Turner, Jano van Hemert, and Jos Koetsier). 4. Advanced Experiments. 4.1 2,2 : 6 ,2 Terpyridine Complexes and Metal Directed Reactivity (Edwin C. Constable). 4.2 4 (4 Pyridyl) 2,2 :6 ,2 terpyridine: Coordination to Iron(II) and Protonation Studies (Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable, and Emma L. Dunphy). 4.3 Heteronuclear d f Complexes Containing Binucleating Ligands (Francisco J. Arnáiz, Jean Pierre Costes, and Javier García Tojal). 4.4 Electronic Characterisation of a Transition Metal Complex Using Electrochemical UV/Vis and EPR Techniques (Lesley J. Yellowlees). 4.5 Chlorotris (tert butylimido) manganese(VII) (Andreas A. Danopoulos and Geoffrey Wilkinson). 4.6 Tetrakisphosphorane Iminato Complexes of Transition Metals (Kurt Dehnicke). 4.7 Magnetochemistry Experiments: Exchange Coupling in Copper(II) Nickel(II) Bimetallic Complexes and Spin Transition in Iron Complexes (Eugenio Coronado and J. J. Borrás Almenar). 4.8 Metal Containing Liquid Crystals. The Synthesis of trans bis(4 Alkyl 4 cyano 1,1 biphenyl)dichloroplatinum(II) and Related Specieis The Use of Melt Syntheses (Duncan W. Bruce). 4.9 Structural, Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Perovskite Ceramics (Colin Greaves). 4.10 Polyoxomolybdate Clusters: Nanoscopic Wheels and Balls (Leroy Cronin, Ekkehard Diemann, and Achim Müller). 4.11 Reaction of Alkali Metal Polyselenides and Polytellurides with Group 6 Metal Carbonyls (Joseph W. Kolis). 4.12 Chlorothionitrene and Cyclothiazeno Complexes of Tungsten (Kurt Dehnicke). 4.13 Sulfur Rich Homocycles and Heterocycles: Titanocene Pentasulfide, cyclo Heptasulfur and 1,2,3,4,5,6.7 Heptathionane (Jörg Albertsen and Ralf Steudel). 4.14 N Ferrocenyl Amine and Some Reactive Derivatives (Max Herbehold, Heidi E. Maisel, and Bernd Wrackmeyer). 4.15 1,1 Bis(trimethylsilylamino)ferrocene A Useful Precursor to 1,n Diaza [n]ferrocenphanes (Max Herberhold, Elena V. Klimkina, and Bernd Wrackmeyer). 4.16 Organometallic Molybdenum Compounds (Manfred Bochmann and Petr Klian). 4.17 Migratory Insertion Reactions in Organo Transition Metal Chemistry (Mark J. Winter). 4.18 A Transition Metal Alkylidyne Complex (Stephen Anderson, Darren Cook, and Anthony F. Hill). 4.19 The Synthesis of 6 Arenetricarbonyl Chromium(0) Complexes (David A. Widdowson). 4.20 Preparation of the Iron Tricarbonyl Complex of Methyl 2 Acetamidoacrylate (M. Elena Lasterra Sanchez and Susan E. Gibson). 4.21 Halfsandwich Carbonyl Vanadium Complexes (Max Herberhold and Mattias Schrepfermann). 4.22 Covalent and Ionic Metallocene Hexafluoroarsenate Complexes (Inis C. Tornieporth Oetting and Thomas M. Klapötke). 4.23 The Prepara of rac Ethylene 1,2 bis(1 indenyl)zirconium Dichloride and Dibenzyl Complexes (Manfred Bochmann and Simon J. Lancaster). 4.24 One Pot Preparation of Ru3(CO)12 from RuCl3 . 3 H2O (Guy Lavigne, Catherine Saccavini, and Remi Chauvin). 4.25 Synthesis of Well defined Organometallic Hydroxides: [LCaOH]2, LAI(ME)OH and LGeOH  (Herbert W. Roesky). 4.26 Alumazene Inorganic Benzene Analogue (Jiri Pinkas). 4.27 Preparation of [Bu4N][B3H8] and the Formation of RuH[B3H8](CO)(PPh3)2 (Anthony F. Hill and J. Derek Woollins). 4.28 Vacuum Line Techniques: Preparation of SiF4 and SiF4(C5H5N)2 (J. Derek Woollins). 4.29 Amino and Nitrotetrazoles: Nitrogen rich Heterocycles (Davin G. Piercey and Thomas M. Klapötke). 4.30 Ammonium 5 Nitro 1 H Tetrazolate Hemihydrate (Franz Xaver Steemann and Thomas M. Klapötke). 4.31 Arsenium Cations: Carbene Analogues (Neil Burford and Trenton M. Parks). 4.32 Preparation and Structure of the Acetyl Chloride Antimony Pentrachloride Complex (Peter N. Gates). 4.33 Preparation and Some Reactions of the Folded P2N4S2 Ring (Tristram Chivers, Daniel D. Doxsee, and Robert W. Hilts). 4.34 Sulfur Nitrogen Heterocycles and [SNBr0.4]x Polymer (J. Derek Woollins). 4.35 Selenium Nitrogen and Tellurium Nitrogen Compounds (Herbert W. Roesky and Judith Gindl). 4.36 Nitride Chlorides of Selenium(III) and Selenium(IV): Se2NCl3 and Se2NCl5 (Kurt Dehnicke). 4.37 The Synthesis and Ring Opening Polymerisation Behaviour of a [1]Silaferroceneophane (Ian Manners). Index.