Ring slippage in indenyl complexes: structure and bonding

✍ Scribed by Maria José Calhorda; Luı́s F. Veiros

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 288 KB
• Volume: 185-186
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-8545
• DOI: 10.1016/s0010-8545(98)00247-1

✦ Synopsis

A review of some structural and reactivity aspects of the coordinated indenyl ligand, dealing mainly with the systems theoretically studied by the authors is presented. In the first section, the structural characterization of h 5 and h 3 indenyl is attempted, noticing that the nodal properties of the p orbitals of the indenyl prevent a totally symmetric coordination in a h 5 -indenyl. The two bonds to the hinge carbon atoms are always longer, and the distance becomes longer than a M-C bond in the h 3 -indenyl derivatives. Some intermediate distances Dedicated to Professor Carlos C. Roma ˜o on the occasion of his 50th birthday.