Aspects of organometallic chemistry, particularly metal alkynyl and cluster chemistry / by Mark Graeme Humphrey.

Includes bibliographical references.3 v. :Details research carried out into the nonlinear optical properties of metal alkynyls, chiefly organoruthenium complexes, showing that these complexes can be designed to have very large NLO coefficients. Also demonstrates the utility of spectroscopic, electrochemical and copmutational aids as predictive tools for NLO materials. Also examines cluster synthesis, reactivity and physical properties using ruthenium clusters and hard-donor ligands, affording a series of cluster complrxes that provide structural models for industrially-important hydrotreating intermediates.Thesis (D.Sc.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Chemistry, 200