Cobalt-dinitrogen complexes with weakened N-N bonds

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 131, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 9471-9472

  Ding, Keying ^a   Pierpont, Aaron W ^b   Brennessel, William W ^a   Lukat Rodgers, Gudrun ^c   Rodgers, Kenton R ^c   Cundari, Thomas R ^b   Bill, Eckhard ^d   Holland, Patrick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-BONDING; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; COORDINATE GEOMETRY; DIKETIMINATE; DINITROGEN COMPLEXES; ELECTRON DENSITIES; LOW COORDINATION; PLANAR GEOMETRIES; ZEROVALENT;

COBALT; COORDINATION REACTIONS; IRON COMPOUNDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

COBALT COMPOUNDS;

COBALT; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE;

COBALT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITROGEN; TRANSITION ELEMENTS;

EID: 67650468454     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja808783u     Document Type: Article

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