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Achieving C-N bond cleavage in dinuclear metal cyanide complexes

Date

Authors

Cavigliasso, German

Christian, Gemma

Stranger, Robert

Yates, Brian F

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

Abstract

Cleavage of cyanide is more difficult to achieve compared to dinitrogen and carbon monoxide, even though these species contain triple bonds of greater strength. In this work, we have used computational methods to investigate thermodynamic and mechanistic

Keywords

Keywords: Back-donation; Bond cleavages; Bond scissions; C-N cleavage; Dinitrogen; Dinuclear; Ligand groups; Mechanistic aspects; Metal centres; Metal cyanide complexes; Metal sites; Molecular fragments; Negative charge; Orbital interaction; Orbitals; Triple bonds;

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/51649

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Dalton Transactions

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1039/c1dt10225g

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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