Metalorganics

Metalorganic compounds (jargon: metalorganics, metallo-organics) are a class of chemical compounds that contain metals and organic ligands. Metalorganic compounds are used extensively in materials science in applications such as metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy (MOVPE or MOCVD) or sol-gel processing using alkoxides. Usually, metalorganic compounds are defined to exclude species with direct metal-carbon bonds, which are classified as organometallic compounds, but definitions vary between chemistry and materials science areas.