Abstract
This chapter introduces aspects of the chemistry of transition metal carbonyl dimers and clusters and illustrates classes of compound with hydride ligands, phosphine and phosphite ligands, organic ligands, interstitial atoms, and other groups involving elements from the p-block. It considers selected methods in preparing heterometallic clusters. It also discusses dimers and clusters containing hydrogen atoms attached directly to one or more metal centres, which are generally termed as hydrides. The chapter explores the electron withdrawing properties of some ligands in the molecule that meant that the metal-bound hydrogen atom can be removed by treatment with base or introduced by reaction of an anionic dimer or cluster with acid. It analyses the general modes of attachment of a hydride ligand to a metal dimer or cluster.
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