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Back Cover: The Solid‐State Structures of Dimethylzinc and Diethylzinc (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49/2011)
Author(s) -
Bacsa John,
Hanke Felix,
Hindley Sarah,
Odedra Rajesh,
Darling George R.,
Jones Anthony C.,
Steiner Alexander
Publication year - 2011
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.201106675
Subject(s) - diethylzinc , dimethylzinc , chemistry , solid state , cover (algebra) , intermolecular force , density functional theory , covalent bond , molecule , nanotechnology , crystallography , polymer chemistry , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , materials science , catalysis , enantioselective synthesis , mechanical engineering , engineering
The solid‐state structures of dimethylzinc and diethylzinc were determined by X‐ray crystallography and density functional theory. These classic organometallic compounds were first prepared by Edward Frankland 160 years ago. Despite their importance in synthetic chemistry, their structures remained elusive to this day. In their Communication on page 11 685 ff., A. Steiner and co‐workers show that the linear molecules form weak intermolecular interactions with small covalent contributions.