Bonding properties of trinuclear metal carbonyls
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans.
- No. 6,p. 1005-1011
- https://doi.org/10.1039/dt9800001005
Abstract
Extended Hückel molecular-orbital calculations have been performed on some trinuclear metal carbonyl species of Fe, Co, and Ni to identify their bonding properties. In addition, formal syntheses of these moieties by the addition of carbonyl ligands to a bare metal triangle and by aggregation of mononuclear carbonyl fragments have been illustrated. Differences between the structural forms and rigidity of complexes containing Ni3(CO)6 2– or M3(CO)9(M = Fe or Co) are rationalised on the basis of the frontier-orbital properties. The nickel compound offers only one cluster fragment orbital of a2″ symmetry and this contributes to the apparently weak bonding to other groups along the principal axis.Keywords
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