Trends in cyclopentadienyl-main-group-metal bonding

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Budzelaar, PHM
Engelberts, JJ
van Lenthe, JH
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[1] Catholic Univ Nijmegen, Dept Inorgan Chem, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[2] Univ Utrecht, Debye Inst, Theoret Chem Grp, NL-3584 CH Utrecht, Netherlands
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10.1021/om020928v
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O61 [无机化学];
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070301 ; 081704 ;
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In contrast to transition metals (TMs), main-group metals (MMs) show a bewildering variety of bonding arrangements to cyclopentadienyl (Cp) groups, including electron-precise, electron-excess, and electron-deficient structures. From a theoretical examination of a large number of representative species, and a comparison with experimental structures, we have deduced three factors which combine to produce this variety. (1) The drive toward electron-precis structures is caused by the preference for electronic saturation (8e rule, similar to the TM 18e rule). (2) A high degree of ionicity leads (if space permits) to increased hapticity and hence to excess-electron structures; this is seen in complexes of Li, Na, Mg, and Al and, to a lesser extent, Pb and Bi. (3) The metal ns orbital has a preference for forming s-bound structures. Thus, heavy involvement of this orbital in the bonding leads to a preference for a-bound structures, even if these are electron-deficient. This last factor, in particular, leads to the paradoxical situation that adding a donor can increase the hapticity of the system. An examination of the slippage curves for a large number of systems shows that Cp-MM interactions are generally much "softer" than the corresponding Cp-TM interactions, leading to easy accessibility of a wide range of geometrical arrangements for many compounds. For intermediate-hapticity structures, valence-bond calculations indicate that the. general preference for h2 over h3 structures is primarily due to ionic and s bond interactions, the latter having a better orbital size match in the h2 situation.
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