有机金属化学是一个跨学科领域，汇集了无机和有机化学的许多方面。正在使用各种合成，结构，机械和理论技术研究各种有机金属体系。合成和结构研究集中在诸如金属卡宾和卡宾配合物中的不饱和金属碳键的化学，通过金属络合稳定高反应性有机部分，过渡金属羰基簇化合物的化学以及开发有用的化合物等问题上。合成试剂。均相催化研究包括对氟代烯烃，小环杂环，烯基酰胺和类似分子的羰基化的研究，以及具有不饱和金属碳键的化合物的催化应用。理论工作包括对有机金属化合物以及有机分子在金属表面上的化学吸附的从头开始和定性的分子轨道研究，以及使配体
The Department of Chemistry, within the College of Arts and Sciences, offers courses of study leading to the degrees of Master of Arts in Teaching Chemistry, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy. Students in the M.A.T. program must register through the School of Professional Development. A student in the Ph.D. program may choose dissertation research in any one of the diverse areas of chemistry represented by the interests of the program faculty, or may choose an interdisciplinary topic under the guidance of a faculty member in another program. Coordinated activities exist with several programs, and include optional concentrations in chemical physics and chemical biology. <br><br>Organometallic chemistry is an interdisciplinary field bringing together many aspects of inorganic and organic chemistry. A wide range of organometallic systems are under study using a variety of synthetic, structural, mechanistic, and theoretical techniques. Synthetic and structural research is focused on such problems as the chemistry of unsaturated metal-carbon bonds in metal carbene and carbyne complexes, the stabilization of highly reactive organic moieties through metal complexation, the chemistry of transition metal carbonyl cluster compounds, and the development of useful synthetic reagents. Homogeneous catalysis studies include investigations of the carbonylations of fluoroolefins, small-ring heterocycles, alkenylamides, and similar molecules, and catalytic applications of compounds with unsaturated metal-carbon bonds. Theoretical work includes ab initio and qualitative molecular orbital studies of organometallic compounds and of the chemisorption of organic molecules onto metal surfaces and molecular mechanics minimizations of ligand geometries.