Bent metal carbene geometries in amido N-heterocyclic carbene complexes
- 15 October 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 23,p. 2738-2739
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b410074c
Abstract
Lithium(I) and uranium(VI) amido-tethered But-substituted N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes exhibit very distorted metal–carbene bonds; the corresponding magnesium(II) and mesityl-substituted NHC uranium(VI) complexes are undistorted; the distortion does not affect the ligand binding strength, suggesting a dominance of electrostatic character in closed-shell electropositive metal–carbene bonds.Keywords
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