Dinuclear versus mononuclear zinc compounds from reduction of LZnCl 2 (L = α-diimine ligands): Effects of the ligand substituent, reducing agent, and solvent

Organometallics

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 5800-5805

  Yu, Jie ^a,e   Yang, Xiao Juan ^a,b   Liu, Yanyan ^a,e   Pu, Zhifeng ^c   Li, Qian Shu ^c   Xie, Yaoming ^d   Schaefer, Henry F ^d   Wu, Biao ^a,b  

^a LANZHOU INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DFT COMPUTATIONS; DIIMINE LIGANDS; DINUCLEAR; LIGAND SUBSTITUENTS; NEUTRAL LIGANDS; ORBITAL ANALYSES; POLYMERIC STRUCTURES; SOLVENT INTERACTIONS; STERIC BULKS;

ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; LIGANDS; LIGHT METALS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POLYMERS; REDUCTION; SOLVENTS; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ZINC;

EID: 57049108744     PISSN: 02767333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/om800405m     Document Type: Article

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