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Xiang-Yang Liu1, Santiago Alvarez
1Departament de Química Inorgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
Abstract:
A molecular orbital study of the model compounds [Mo(2)(NH(2))(6)], [Mo(2)(OH)(6)], [W(2)H(6)] and [W(2)Cl(6)], indicates that the M-M bond strength should increase with increasing pyramidality (i.e., the average of the M-M-L bond angles) up to a certain angle (the turnover point), after which the trend is inverted. The topology of the metal-centered pi-type orbitals of the ML(3) fragments favors the appearance of the turnover point at a smaller angle than the minimum in energy, resulting in an inverted pyramidality effect for the experimentally attainable angles. A structural database search supports the theoretical findings: the M-M distances in triple-bonded complexes of d(3) transition metal ions in the families [Mo(2)(NR(2))(6)], [W(2)(NR(2))(6)], and [W(2)(OR)(6)] decrease with increasing pyramidality angles, while the [Mo(2)(OR)(6)] complexes present a parabolic bond distance-bond angle dependence.
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