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- Title
Effect of Spectator Ligands on Haptotropic Rearrangements of Metal‐Azulene Complexes.
- Authors
Guzmán‐Espinoza, Carlos Víctor; Ledesma‐Olvera, Lydia Gabriela; Barquera‐Lozada, José Enrique
- Abstract
Azulene is a very remarkable ligand because of its zwitterionic character and the large variety of ways that it can coordinate with a metal. However, there is little knowledge about the factors that control the diversity of coordination modes in metal‐Azulene complexes. We carry out an energy and electron density analysis in the framework of DFT and QTAIM to understand how the nature of the spectator ligands affects the azulene's coordination preference in these systems. The results show that the π back‐donation plays a fundamental role in the coordination preference of the metal and also show that the π‐acidity of spectator ligands can be used to control inter‐ring haptotropic preferences. If the spectator ligands are strong acceptors as CO, the metal centre prefers to coordinate at the five‐membered ring. Meanwhile, poor acidic ligands as amines, favour a coordination to the seven‐membered ring.
- Subjects
ELECTRON density; SPECTATORS; AZULENE; ENERGY density; ATOMS in molecules theory; COORDINATION compounds; ZWITTERIONS
- Publication
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2021, Vol 2021, Issue 44, p4579
- ISSN
1434-1948
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ejic.202100669