Unsaturated binuclear homoleptic nickel carbonyl anions Ni2(CO)n− (n = 4–6) featuring double three-center two-electron Ni–C

Unsaturated binuclear homoleptic nickel carbonyl anions Ni2(CO)n− (n = 4–6) featuring double three-center two-electron Ni–C–Ni bonds

Published:2020 Issue:41 Volume:22 Page:23773-23784
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Liu Zhiling¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Bai Yan¹²³⁴⁵,Li Ya¹²³⁴⁵,He Jing¹²³⁴⁵,Lin Qingyang¹²³⁴⁵,Xie Hua⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰,Tang Zichao¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵

Affiliation:

1. School of Chemical and Material Science

2. Key Laboratory of Magnetic Molecules & Magnetic Information Materials

3. Ministry of Education

4. Shanxi Normal University

5. Linfen

6. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics

7. Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

8. Chinese Academy of Sciences

9. Dalian

10. China

11. Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials

12. State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces

13. and Department of Chemistry

14. College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

15. Xiamen University

Abstract

The two nickel atoms in the Ni₂(CO)_n⁻ (n = 4–6) complexes are joined by two bridging carbonyl ligands via the sharing three-center two-electron Ni–C–Ni bond in turn to achieve the (16,16), (16,18), and eventually the favored (18,18) configurations.

Funder

Shanxi Province Science Foundation for Youths

Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Shanxi Normal University

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/CP/D0CP03883K

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