Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5376478 | Chemical Physics | 2007 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Complete geometry optimizations were carried out by HF and DFT methods to study the molecular structure of binuclear transition-metal compounds (Cp(CO)3W(μ-PPh2)W(CO)5) (I) and (Cp(CO)2W(μ-PPh2)W(CO)5) (II). A comparison of the experimental data and calculated structural parameters demonstrates that the most accurate geometry parameters are predicted by the MPW1PW91/LANL2DZ among the three DFT methods. Topological properties of molecular charge distributions were analyzed with the theory of atoms in molecules. (3, â1) critical points, namely bond critical point, were found between the two tungsten atoms, and between W1 and C10 in complex II, which confirms the existence of the metal-metal bond and a semi-bridging CO between the two tungsten atoms. The result provided a theoretical guidance of detailed study on the binuclear phosphido-bridged complex containing transition metal-metal bond, which could be useful in the further study of the heterobimetallic phosphido-bridged complexes.
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Authors
Fang Wang, Hongmei Yang, Zuoyin Yang, Jingchang Zhang, Weiliang Cao,