Question

Importance of Organometallic compounds?

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Organometallic compound is a chemical substance that contains at least one carbon-metal bond.

The metals like Mg, Li, Cu can be used to prepare organometallic compounds. Examples, CH₃MgBr, CH₃Li, (CH₃)₂CuLi.

The carbon bonded to metal acts as a nucleophile which can react with electrophilic carbon to form a new carbon-carbon bond. This reactivity to form new carbon-carbon bond is very important in the synthesis of complex compounds from simple starting material.

Organometallic compounds have wide range of applications in field of chemistry. Their importance is as follows:

In the agricultural industry for instance there are a number of popular herbicides, insecticide and fungicides used which are organometallic compounds.

The organomagnesium halides (Grignard reagents RMgX), organolithium (RLi) and organocopper (R₂Culi) are widely used in the synthetic organic chemistry.

Alkylaluminum compounds are also employed in organic synthesis.

Organometallic compounds used with titanium salts, are important catalysts in the polymerization of unsaturated hydrocarbons, such as ethylene and propylene.

They are also be used in LEDs.

The compounds such as trimethylgallium, trimethylaluminum, trimethylindium, and trimethyl antimony can also be used in the manufacturing of some of semiconductors.