Nature of M-Ga Bonds in cationic metal-gallylene complexes of iron, ruthenium, and osmium, [(?5-C5H5)(L)2M(GaX)]+: a theoretical study.
Nature of M-Ga Bonds in cationic metal-gallylene complexes of iron, ruthenium, and osmium, [(?5-C5H5)(L)2M(GaX)]+: a theoretical study.
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铁、钌和锇的阳离子金属-没食子络合物中 M-Ga 键的性质,[(?5-C5H5)(L)2M(GaX)]:理论研究。
DOI:
10.1021/ic102217z
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
Pandey KK
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作者:
Pandey KK
Density Functional Theory calculations have been performed for the cationic half-sandwich gallylene complexes of iron, ruthenium, and osmium [(η5-C5H5)(L)2M(GaX)]+(M = Fe, L = CO, PMe3; X = Cl, Br, I, NMe2, Mes; M = Ru, Os: L = CO, PMe3; X = I, NMe2, Mes) at the BP86/TZ2P/ZORA level of theory. Calculated geometric parameters for the model iron iodogallylene system [(η5-C5H5)(Me3P)2Fe(GaI)]+are in excellent agreement with the recently reported experimental values for [(η5-C5Me5)(dppe)Fe(GaI)]+. The M−Ga bonds in these systems are shorter than expected for single bonds, an observation attributed not to significant M−Ga π orbital contributions, but due instead primarily to high gallium s-orbital contributions to the M−Ga bonding orbitals. Such a finding is in line with the tenets of Bent’s Rule insofar as correspondingly greater gallium p-orbital character is found in the bonds to the (more electronegative) gallylene substituent X. Consistent with this, ΔEσis found to be overwhelmingly the dominant contribution to the orbital interaction between [(η5-C5H5)(L)2M]+and [GaX] fragments (with ΔEπequating to only 8.0−18.6% of the total orbital contributions); GaX ligands thus behave as predominantly σ-donor ligands. Electrostatic contributions to the overall interaction energy ΔEintare also very important, being comparable in magnitude (or in some cases even larger than) the corresponding orbital interactions.