On the nature and incidence of β-agostic interactions in ethyl derivatives of early transition metals: Ethyltitanium trichloride and related compounds

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 120, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 3762-3772

  Haaland, Arne ^a   Scherer, Wolfgang ^b   Ruud, Kenneth ^a   McGrady, G Sean ^c   Downs, Anthony J ^c   Swang, Ole ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION COMPOUND; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; METAL DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LIGAND BINDING; METAL BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032557208     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9737578     Document Type: Article

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