Talk:Metal-organic compound

advertisement and expert

I have tagged the article for checking as advertisement and expert earlier today. Now I have removed the advertisement parts, cleaned the article, trying to keep the references that were in the article. I think the article still needs an expert, though, since this is not exactly my field of expertise. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 22:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Changes made October, 2008

I made substantial changes today, with no disrespect to the previous contributions. Much of the content was specifically oriented toward MOCVD, and I moved material to that article. The definition of "metalorganics" is complicated mainly because of the overlap with organometallics. The greatest area currently missing is in the lack of discussion of alkoxides, which are key to sol-gel processing, it seems. Possibly metal acetylacetonates is another area meriting developing. Most coordination chemistry, when applied to materials science could be included also, which makes this article awkward since expanding the article would entail duplication. Some general references are needed, obviously. My suggestion would be to keep this article short and general with lots of "see also's" or "see main article" xyz.--Smokefoot (talk) 03:40, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Metalorganic vs. Organometallic

I don't want to start a fight, but this article says "metalorganic" excludes M-C bonded molecules, and then spends a paragraph on use of M-C bonded molecules (compound semiconductor growth, etc.). For those of us who are not organic chemists, please provide references showing that MO != OM. The terms seem to be used interchangeably more often than not, even by organic chemists (Rohm & Haas, etc.). I would vote to merge this back with organometallics, possibly with a clarifying sentence explaining the distinction. Mwistey (talk) 04:32, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

I need to find a good ref that supports the description. We need to remove the M-C bonded compounds. My understanding is that the term describes metal-containing compounds that lack M-C bonds but that are otherwise lipophilic, alkoxides, acetylacetonates, some carboxylates are members, I think.

The article's was created by someone trying to publicize their publications, which is the basis of the current issue. Self-citation is a pathetic but common motive for editing on Wikipedia, see [[1]].--Smokefoot (talk) 14:03, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Set index

I've converted this to a set-index to get around the problem of what to do with the article. Anyone objecting is invited to being a BRD cycle (Although if you're reading this years from now maybe find me directly, I'll not be following this talk page). --Project Osprey (talk) 13:16, 7 July 2015 (UTC)