Kubas G.J. Metal Dihydrogen and Sigma-Bond Complexes

Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, USA, 2002. – 477 p. – ISBN: 0-306-47597-9The discovery of the Kubas complex was a defining event in the historical development of coordination chemistry. By 1920, the Lewis ideas on the role of electron pairs in bonding had already associated the coordinate bond with the donation of a lone pair to a metal. For example, donation of the ammonia lone pair to was implicated in the classical Werner cobalt–ammonia complexes. Subsequent developments extended the coordination concept beyond lone-pair donors.
Around 1950, a series of discoveries by Wilkinson, Chatt, Fischer, and others showed how the electrons of unsaturated ligands such as cyclopentadienide ion and ethylene can also bind to metal ions. These complexes stimulated the modern development of organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis.Background and Discovery of Dihydrogen Coordination
Synthesis and General Properties of Dihydrogen Complexes
Bonding and Activation of Dihydrogen and Ligands: Theory versus Experiment
Structural and NMR Studies of Dihydrogen Complexes
Intramolecular Dynamics of Dihydrogen–Hydride Ligand Systems: Hydrogen Rotation, Exchange, and Quantum-Mechanical Effects
Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Isotope Effects of the Binding and Cleavage of Ligands versus Classical Ligands
Vibrational Studies of Coordinated Dihydrogen
Reactions and Acidity of Dihydrogen Complexes
Activation of Hydrogen and Related Small Molecules by Metalloenzymes and Sulfur Ligand Systems
Coordination and Activation of Si–H, Ge–H, and Sn–H Bonds
C-H Bond Coordination and Activation
Coordination and Activation of B–H and Other X–H and X–Y Bonds