ORGANOMETALLICS (CHEM 530) 2019
• Syllabus
• Full playlist of lectures on YouTube

DAY 1: Strong Inference + Main Group Organometallics
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 2: Organotransition Metal Complexes: History, Structure, and Bonding I
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 3: Organotransition Metal Complexes: History, Structure, and Bonding II
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 4: Elementary Reactions I
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 5: Elementary Reactions II
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 6: Elementary Reactions III
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 7: Carbenes and Other M–C and M–X Multiple Bonds
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 8: GUEST – Catalytic Cycloadditions (V. Schmidt, UCSD)
• Lecture Video
DAY 9: Principles of Catalysis and Ancillary Ligand Design
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 10: Catalytic Hydrogenation
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 11: Catalytic Carbonylation
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 12: MIDTERM
DAY 13: Wacker- and Heck-Type Alkene Addition
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 14: Allylic Substitution
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 15: Olefin Metathesis
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 16: Catalytic Cross-Coupling
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 17: Catalytic C–H Activation
• Lecture Video
DAY 18: GUEST – Industrial Applications of Olefin Metathesis (J. Phillips/A. Johns, Materia)
DAY 19: Wikipedia Page Presentations
DAY 20: GUEST – Application, Mechanism and Catalyst Activation in the Real World (M. Eastgate, BMS)
DAY 21: GUEST – Natural and Articifial Metalloenzymes (H. Renata, Scripps-FL)
• Slides • Lecture Video
DAY 22: GUEST – Catalysis in Discovery Chemistry  (R. Patman, Pfizer)
DAY 23: Photochemistry of Coordination Complexes
• Worksheet • Lecture Video
DAY 24: FINAL EXAM

2019 Problem Sets, Midterm, and Final
• Problem Set 1
• Problem Set 2
• Midterm
• Final

Wikipedia Project
Since 2017, the Scripps Organometallics class created >50 new Wikipedia pages on topics relevant to coordination chemistry, organometallics, and catalysis. Below are representative articles voted among the best by the class for each year:

2019
• Artificial Metalloenzymes
• Cross Electrophile Coupling
• Philippe Barbier
• Metallo-Ene Reaction
• Beta-Carbon Elimination

2017
• Activation of Cyclopropanes by Transition Metals
• Mukaiyama Hydration
• Spin Forbidden Reactions
• Tsuji–Wilkinson Decarbonylation Reaction
• Ugi’s Amine