Organometallics are compounds, exclusively synthetic, whose constitution is deduced from that of a hydrocarbon by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms with a metal.
This definition excludes metal salts of carboxylic acids, alkoxides, phenates, thiolates, amides, etc. ; it can be extended to the products of substitution by a metal of a hydrogen linked to carbon on a skeleton carrying, in addition, other functions (functional organometallic), and to the association of a metallic cation with a mesomeric anion such than the keto-enolate ion.
This course will be limited to the study of organometallics derived from hydrocarbons; an allusion will however be made to the functions which remain compatible with the existence of a metal in the same molecule.
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