Trigonal pyramids: Alternative ground-state structures for sixteen-electron complexes

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 45, Issue 31, 2006, Pages 5169-5173

  Ostendorf, Detlev ^a   Landis, Clark ^b   Grützmacher, Hansjörg ^a  

^a LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkene ligands; Density functional calculations; Rhodium; Si ligands; Silanes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OLEFINS; RHODIUM; SILANES;

ALKENE LIGANDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; SILYL LIGANDS; TRIGONAL PYRAMIDS;

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 33747238226     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200601352     Document Type: Article

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