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Back Cover: The MoMo Quintuple Bond as a Ligand to Stabilize Transition‐Metal Complexes (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 31/2015)
Author(s) -
Lu DuanYen,
Chen Peter P.Y.,
Kuo TingShen,
Tsai YiChou
Publication year - 2015
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.201505541
Subject(s) - transition metal , ligand (biochemistry) , chemistry , cover (algebra) , metal , crystallography , main group element , salt (chemistry) , catalysis , organic chemistry , engineering , receptor , mechanical engineering , biochemistry
Since the preparation of Zeise's salt in 1827 a wealth of transition‐metal–main‐group element π and σ complexes have been synthesized and characterized. The best interpretation of their bonding is the Dewar–Chatt model. In their Communication on page 9106 ff., Y.‐C. Tsai et al. now show that metal–metal bonds, such as the Mo–Mo quintuple bond, can act as a ligand to stabilize transition‐metal complex fragments and form δ complexes, and their bonding can still be described by the Dewar–Chatt model.