Do agostic interactions play a role in the stabilization of the nido structure of [(PPh3)2RhSB9H10]?

Density functional calculations on [(PPh3)2-nido- RhSB9H10] do not support the proposition that there are agostic interactions between two ortho-phenyl hydrogen atoms and the metal centre. Thus, the claim that these interactions supply the electron-pair 'missing' from the formal Wadian ele...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Bould, Jonathan, Macías, Ramón
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/111774
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/111774
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Agostic
Metallaborane
Cluster structure
Wade's rules
DFT
Rhodathiaborane
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Sumario:Density functional calculations on [(PPh3)2-nido- RhSB9H10] do not support the proposition that there are agostic interactions between two ortho-phenyl hydrogen atoms and the metal centre. Thus, the claim that these interactions supply the electron-pair 'missing' from the formal Wadian electron-count of 13 skeletal-electron-pairs required for a nido 11-vertex cluster is also not supported. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.