A simple description of the bonding in transition-metal borane complexes

Organometallics

Volumn 25, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 4744-4747

  Parkin, Gerard ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORANE COMPLEXES; LEWIS ACID LIGANDS; METAL HYDRIDES; PROTONATION;

BONDING; COMPLEXATION; ELECTRONS; HYDRIDES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION; TRANSITION METALS;

BORON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33749828526     PISSN: 02767333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/om060580u     Document Type: Article

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