The role of electronic effects in determining the thermodynamic stabilities of olefin complexes of palladium(II) and platinum(II)
Abstract
The dominant factor in determining the thermodynamic stability of the metal–olefin bond in p-substituted styrene complexes of palladium(II) has been shown to be the olefin-π to metal-d component of the bond, rather than the metal-d to olefin-π* component.