Metal-organic compound

Metal-organic compounds (jargon: metalorganics, metallo-organics) are a class of chemical compounds that contain metals and organic ligands, but lacking direct metal-carbon bonds. Metal β-diketonates, metal alkoxides, metal dialkylamides, transition metal carboxylate complexes, metal acetylacetonates, and metal phosphine complexes are representative members of this class. Some of metal-organic compounds confer solubility in organic solvents or volatility. Compounds with these properties find applications in materials science for metal organic vapor deposition (MOCVD) or sol-gel processing. Precise definitions of metal-organic compound may vary,[1] however the term may describe:

* Organometallic chemistry
* Metal coordination complexes of organic ligands.

## References

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1. ^ Fulton, J. Robin; Holland, Andrew W.; Fox, Daniel J.; Bergman, Robert G. (January 2002). "Formation, Reactivity, and Properties of Nondative Late Transition Metal–Oxygen and–Nitrogen Bonds". Accounts of Chemical Research. 35 (1): 44–56\. doi:10.1021/ar000132x. ISSN 0001-4842. PMC 1473979. PMID 11790088.

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