Nomenclature of Organometallic Compounds

Abstract

Organometallic compounds are compounds containing metal–carbon bonds. Chemists prefer that the organometallic compound has metal–carbon bonding and that the bonding should be covalently or partially ionic in nature. As a result, organic compounds and the coordination chemistry nomenclature are frequently combined in organometallic nomenclature. Both the naming of Organic Chemistry, 1979, and the Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, 1990, both have provisional rules describing nomenclature for such compounds.