Issue 26, 2017

Generalization of the Tolman electronic parameter: the metal–ligand electronic parameter and the intrinsic strength of the metal–ligand bond

Abstract

The catalytic activity of transition metal complexes (R)nM–L can be predicted utilizing the metal–ligand electronic parameter (MLEP) that is based on the local stretching force constant of the M-L bond. Vibrational spectroscopy is an excellent tool to accurately determine vibrational mode properties such as stretching frequencies. These correspond, because of mode–mode coupling, to delocalized vibrational modes, which have to be first converted into local vibrational modes, and their properties. Each bond of a molecule can be uniquely characterized by the local stretching force constant and frequency. The former is ideally suited to set up a scale of bond strength orders, which identifies weak M–L bonds with promising catalytic activity. It is shown how the MLEP replaces the TEP (Tolman Electronic Parameter), which is based on the CO stretching frequencies of a (CO)nM–L complex and which is now exclusively used in hundreds of investigations. However, the TEP is at best a qualitative parameter that suffers from relatively large mode–mode coupling errors and the basic deficiency of most indirect descriptors: They cannot correctly describe the intrinsic M–L bond strength via the CO stretching frequencies.

Graphical abstract: Generalization of the Tolman electronic parameter: the metal–ligand electronic parameter and the intrinsic strength of the metal–ligand bond

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
16 jan 2017
Accepted
06 mar 2017
First published
07 mar 2017

Dalton Trans., 2017,46, 8323-8338

Generalization of the Tolman electronic parameter: the metal–ligand electronic parameter and the intrinsic strength of the metal–ligand bond

D. Cremer and E. Kraka, Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 8323 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT00178A

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