Previously, I looked at the historic origins of the so-called π-complex theory of metal-alkene complexes. Here I follow this up with some data mining of the crystal structure database for such structures.
Posts Tagged ‘filled metal orbital’
A wider look at π-complex metal-alkene (and alkyne) compounds.
Monday, June 13th, 2016Tags:alkene, alkene-metal complex, alkyne, Bond length, Carbon–carbon bond, Chemical bond, chemical bonding, Cluster chemistry, Conquest structure editor, Coordination complex, data mining, double bond, editor, filled metal orbital, metal, metal-alkene complexes, metal-alkyne complexes, metal-carbon bonds, Pi backbonding, search query, Structural formula, Transition metal alkyne complex
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Au and Pt π-complexes of cyclobutadiene.
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013In the preceding post, I introduced Dewar’s π-complex theory for alkene-metal compounds, outlining the molecular orbital analysis he presented, in which the filled π-MO of the alkene donates into a Ag+ empty metal orbital and back-donation occurs from a filled metal orbital into the alkene π* MO. Here I play a little “what if” game with this scenario to see what one can learn from doing so.
Tags:African Union, alkene-metal compounds, empty metal orbital, energy, filled metal orbital, free energy, Historical, Hypervalency, Interesting chemistry, lower energy form, metal
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