Issue 20, 2002
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Chemical Communications

Are metal alkoxides linear owing to electrostatic repulsion?

Maria Rosa Russo,a   Nikolas Kaltsoyannis*a  and  Andrea Sellaa  

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a Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, UK
E-mail: n.kaltsoyannis@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

Density functional theory calculations on [LnCp2APh] (Ln = La, Lu; Cp = η5-C5H5; A = O, S; Ph = C6H5) suggest that the linearity of the Ln–O–C vectors arises largely as a result of electrostatic repulsion between the α carbon and the trivalent metal centre.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B207435D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Jul 2002
Accepted
23 Aug 2002
First published
24 Sep 2002

Chem. Commun., 2002, 2458-2459

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