BICAPPED TETRAHEDRAL, TRIGONAL PRISMATIC, AND OCTAHEDRAL ALTERNATIVES IN MAIN AND TRANSITION GROUP 6 COORDINATION
BICAPPED TETRAHEDRAL, TRIGONAL PRISMATIC, AND OCTAHEDRAL ALTERNATIVES IN MAIN AND TRANSITION GROUP 6 COORDINATION
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DOI:
10.1021/ja00425a016
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
ROSSI, AR
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作者:
HOFFMANN, R;HOWELL, JM;ROSSI, AR
We examine theoretically the bicapped tetrahedronand trigonal prism as alternatives to the common octahedron for six-coordinate mainand transition group compounds. The pronounced preference of six-coordinate sulfur for an octahe-dral geometry is traced by a molecular orbital analysis to a pair of nonbondinglevels, whose higher energy in the nonoctahe-dral geometries is due to the molecular orbital equivalent of a ligand-ligand repulsion. For transition element complexes we draw a correlation diagram for the trigonal twist interrelating octahedraland trigonal prismatic extremes. A possible prefer-ence for the trigonal prism in systems with fewd electrons is discussed, as well as a strategy for lowering the energy of the trigonal prismby symmetry-conditioned ir bonding. The bicapped tetrahedron geometry for transition metal complexes can be stabilized by a substitution pattern ML4D2 where D is a good donor and M is a d6 metal center.In main and transition group six-coordinate compounds the octahedral geometry predominates. There is, however, a growing class of trigonal prismatic complexes and structures intermediate between the octahedron and trigonal prism in coordination geometry. 2® In six-coordinate tin and other group 4 element chemistry a wide range of coordination geometries has been found. 2b Some six-coordinate tran-sition metal dihydrides, of the general formula H2ML4, are highly distorted toward a bicapped tetrahedron. 3 Presently there exists a unique non-hydride, Fe (CO) 4 (Si (CH3) 3) 2, which exhibits a similar distortion. 4 We also have the fasci-nating structural problem of xenon hexafluoride. 5 All these compounds, highly interesting in their own right, so far add up to but a small percentage of the myriad of complexes which assume a geometry close to octahedral. Octahedral or near-octahedral six-coordinate molecules are generally stereochemically rigid. Perhaps this is more often assumed than proven, but we have the most direct demonstration in the isolation, under ambient conditions, of many cis-trans isomeric pairs of ML4XY complexes. In