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Highly Unsaturated Binuclear Butadiene Iron Carbonyls: Quintet Spin States, Perpendicular Structures, Agostic Hydrogen Atoms, and Iron-Iron Multiple Bonds

by
Yi Zeng
1,
Shijian Wang
1,
Hao Feng
1,*,
Yaoming Xie
2 and
R. Bruce King
2,*
1
School of Physics and Chemistry, Research Center for Advanced Computation, Xihua University, Chengdu, China
2
Department of Chemistry and Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2011, 12(4), 2216-2231; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms12042216
Received: 22 February 2011 / Revised: 8 March 2011 / Accepted: 14 March 2011 / Published: 30 March 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Molecular Electronic Structure Calculations)
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The highly unsaturated binuclear butadiene iron carbonyls (C4H6)2Fe2(CO)n (n = 2, 1) have been examined using density functional theory. For (C4H6)2Fe2(CO)n (n = 2, 1), both coaxial and perpendicular structures are found. The global minima of (C4H6)2Fe2(CO)n (n = 2, 1) are the perpendicular structures 2Q-1 and 1Q-1, respectively, with 17- and 15-electron configurations for the iron atoms leading to quintet spin states. The Fe=Fe distance of 2.361 Å (M06-L) in the (C4H6)2Fe2(CO)2 structure 2Q-1 suggests a formal double bond. The Fe≡Fe bond distance in the (C4H6)2Fe2(CO) structure 1Q-1 is even shorter at 2.273 Å (M06-L), suggesting a triple bond. Higher energy (C4H6)2Fe2(CO)n (n = 2, 1) structures include structures in which a bridging butadiene ligand is bonded to one of the iron atoms as a tetrahapto ligand and to the other iron atom through two agostic hydrogen atoms from the end CH2 groups. Singlet (C4H6)2Fe2(CO) structures with formal Fe–Fe quadruple bonds of lengths ~2.05 Å were also found but at very high energies (~47 kcal/mol) relative to the global minimum. View Full-Text
Keywords: iron carbonyls; iron-iron bonding; agostic hydrogen atom; metal-olefin complexes iron carbonyls; iron-iron bonding; agostic hydrogen atom; metal-olefin complexes
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Zeng, Y.; Wang, S.; Feng, H.; Xie, Y.; King, R.B. Highly Unsaturated Binuclear Butadiene Iron Carbonyls: Quintet Spin States, Perpendicular Structures, Agostic Hydrogen Atoms, and Iron-Iron Multiple Bonds. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2011, 12, 2216-2231. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms12042216

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Zeng Y, Wang S, Feng H, Xie Y, King RB. Highly Unsaturated Binuclear Butadiene Iron Carbonyls: Quintet Spin States, Perpendicular Structures, Agostic Hydrogen Atoms, and Iron-Iron Multiple Bonds. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2011; 12(4):2216-2231. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms12042216

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Zeng, Yi, Shijian Wang, Hao Feng, Yaoming Xie, and R. Bruce King. 2011. "Highly Unsaturated Binuclear Butadiene Iron Carbonyls: Quintet Spin States, Perpendicular Structures, Agostic Hydrogen Atoms, and Iron-Iron Multiple Bonds" International Journal of Molecular Sciences 12, no. 4: 2216-2231. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms12042216

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