Readings
Readings for 5.05 include recommended books and journal articles, journal special issues devoted to main group chemistry, and computational chemistry resource manuals. Proficiency will be assessed with occasional in-class quizzes and a year-end project.
Books
- The Chemical Bond
- Modern aspects of main group chemistry
- Discovering chemistry with natural bond orbitals
- Atoms in molecules: an introduction
Some Key Articles
Themed Issues
- Frontiers in Main Group Chemistry (Chem. Rev. 2019).
- NHCs in Main Group Chemistry (Chem. Rev. 2019).
- Chem. Soc. Rev. Modern Main Group Chemistry issue
- Forum on main group chemistry from synthesis to applications
- Applications of electrophilic main group organometallic molecules
- Frustrated Lewis Pairs
- The renaissance of main group chemistry
- Main group chemistry: from molecules to materials