《金属有机化学》是关于含金属－碳键的金属有机化合物的结构、性质、制备及应用的化学，也是自上世纪五十年代以来得到迅猛发展的一个化学研究领域。它的发展不仅产生了许多新概念和新理论，而且在合成化学方面带来了新的化合物种类和革命性的方法，如二茂铁、齐格－纳塔催化剂、不对称合成、复分解反应以及催化偶联反应等。这些理论和方法已广泛应用于材料、医药及天然物合成中，并在生命科学和分子电子学等新领域的研究与探索中发挥重要作用。本课程主要通过课堂教学、讨论、文献阅读和报告综述等形式使学生掌握金属有机化学，尤其是过渡金属有机化学的基本概念和应用，了解其当前的研究方法以及发展趋势，为反应机理研究、新催化反应的探索及相关反应在合成中的应用提供帮助。

Organometallic chemistry, the chemistry on the structures, properties, preparations, and applications of organometallic compounds containing metal-carbon bonds, is always one of the most rapidly growing areas. In the past six decades, not only a lot of new concepts and new theories have been established, but many unexpected compounds and revolutionary methodologies in synthetic chemistry have been found, such as ferrocences, Ziegler-Natta catalysts, asymmetric syntheses, metathesis, and catalytic couplings etc. Those theories and methodologies are fully applied in the synthesis of materials, medicines, and natural products, and play an important role in the studying or exploring some new areas including life science, molelectronics, and so on.