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INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA
卷 361, 期 2, 页码 513-520出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2007.05.050
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cyclopropenylidene; carbene complexes; experimental charge density; topological analysis; cyclic electron delocalization; quantum theory of atoms in molecules
The extent and nature of cyclic electron delocalization in free and coordinated cyclopropenylidene carbenes has been analyzed by combined experimental and theoretical charge-density studies. The significant asymmetry of the C - C bond lengths in substituted cyclopropenylidene carbenes was identified as cooperative effect which depends on contributions of both sigma- and pi-bonding. We show that analyses of (i) the topology of the Laplacian of the electron density distribution and (ii) the out-of-plane atomic quadrupole moments - the charge-density analogues of p(pi) occupation - allow to distinguish between the influence of sigma- and pi-electrons on cyclic electron delocalization. These studies hint for pronounced electron localization in the carbene lone pair region which dominates the electronic structure of free cyclopropenylidene carbenes and hinders the establishment of true aromaticity. We further investigated the electron donating/withdrawing ability of cyclopropenylidene ligands relative to N-heterocyclic carbenes. The experimental benchmark systems LCr(CO)(5) (L = 2,3-diphenylcyclopropenylidene and 1,2-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene) show that the cyclopropenylidene ligand clearly displays the higher pi-acceptor capability relative to N-heterocyclic carbenes. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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