Two electronic mechanisms are presented which can explain the existence of bond-stretch isomerism in transition metal complexes: the first entails a real level crossing, and the second, best regarded as a second-order Jahn–Teller effect, has links with bond localization problems in allyl anion and benzene.
Y. Jean, A. Lledos, J. K. Burdett and R. Hoffmann, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1988, 140 DOI: 10.1039/C39880000140
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