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Trigonal Pyramids: Alternative Ground‐State Structures for Sixteen‐Electron Complexes
Author(s) -
Ostendorf Detlev,
Landis Clark,
Grützmacher Hansjörg
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200601352
Subject(s) - trigonal crystal system , rhodium , trigonal pyramidal molecular geometry , chemistry , crystallography , olefin fiber , ligand (biochemistry) , ground state , silylation , stereochemistry , crystal structure , physics , organic chemistry , atomic physics , catalysis , receptor , biochemistry
A structural alternative for sixteen‐electron ML 4 complexes is the trigonal‐pyramidal (TP) form. This has been demonstrated by the preparation of TP complexes of rhodium(I) with three equatorial olefin ligands and one axial silyl ligand (see picture: C black, Rh blue, Si orange).