Quintuply-bonded dichromium(I) complexes featuring metal-metal bond lengths of 1.74 Å

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 47, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 9933-9936

  Hsu, Chia Wei ^a   Yu, Jen Shiang K ^b   Yen, Chun Hsu ^a   Lee, Gene Hsiang ^c   Wang, Yu ^c   Tsai, Yi Chou ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chromium; Density functional calculations; Metal metal interactions; Multiple bonds; N ligands

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FLOW INTERACTIONS; LIGANDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AMIDINATE; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; DFT CALCULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; METAL BONDS; MULTIPLE BONDS; N LIGANDS; STERIC HINDRANCES;

METALS;

CHROMIUM; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY;

CHROMIUM; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 57649140716     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200803859     Document Type: Article

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