An N-Heterocyclic Carbene as a Bidentate Hemilabile Ligand: A Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction and Density Functional Theory Study

June 11, 2003

Journal Article

An N-Heterocyclic Carbene as a Bidentate Hemilabile Ligand: A Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction and Density Functional Theory Study

Abstract

The N?heterocyclic carbene ligand IMes was shown by synchrotron crystallography and DFT computations to adopt a hemilabile bidentate coordination mode in CpM(CO)2(IMes)+B(C6F5)4- (M = Mo, W), with a C=C bond of one mesityl weakly coordinated to the metal

Revised: November 29, 2010 | Published: June 11, 2003

Citation

Dioumaev V.K., D.J. Szalda, J. Hanson, J.A. Franz, and M. Bullock. 2003. An N-Heterocyclic Carbene as a Bidentate Hemilabile Ligand: A Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction and Density Functional Theory Study. Chemical Communications 2003, no. 14:1670-1671. PNNL-SA-38943. doi:10.1039/b303762b