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Transition Metal Vinylidene Complex
A transition metal vinylidene complex is an organometallic compound containing a metal bound to a vinylidene group (i.e. bearing the motif M=C=CRR'). Free Vinylidene group, vinylidenes (:C=CRR') are the less thermodynamically stable valence tautomers of alkynes, and interconversion between the two species typically requires extremely harsh conditions. However, the presence of a coordinated metal can greatly decrease the Chemical kinetics, kinetic barrier between alkyne-vinylidene interconversion. Furthermore, the Equilibrium constant, equilibrium can be shifted from metal π-alkyne complex to metal vinylidene complex, depending on the identity of the metal, the nature of the ligands, and the alkyne substituents. Since metal vinylidenes have a broad range of reactivities and the conditions for their formation are generally very mild, they have found use in a variety of Organic synthesis, synthetic organic and Organometallic chemistry, organometallic contexts. Structure According ...
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Vinylidene Alkyne Equil
Methylidenecarbene (systematically named λ2-ethene and dihydrido-1κ2''H''-dicarbon(''C''—''C'')) is an organic compound with the chemical formula (also written [] or ). It is a metastability, metastable proton tautomer of acetylene, which only persists as an adduct. It is a colourless gas that phosphoresces in the far-infrared range. It is the simplest saturated and unsaturated compounds, unsaturated carbene. Nomenclature The systematic names ''λ2-ethene'', and ''dihydrido-1κ2H-dicarbon(C—C)'', valid IUPAC names, are constructed according to the substitutive and additive nomenclatures, respectively. In appropriate contexts, methylidenecarbene can be viewed as ethene with two hydrogen atoms removed, or as ethane with four hydrogens removed; and as such, ''ethen-1-ylidene'' (or ''vinylidene'') or ''ethane-1-diylidene'', respectively, may be used as a context-specific systematic names, according to substitutive nomenclature. By default, these names pay no regard to the ra ...
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Sigma Bond
In chemistry, sigma bonds (σ bonds) or sigma overlap are the strongest type of covalent chemical bond. They are formed by head-on overlapping between atomic orbitals along the internuclear axis. Sigma bonding is most simply defined for diatomic molecules using the language and tools of symmetry groups. In this formal approach, a σ-bond is symmetrical with respect to rotation about the bond axis. By this definition, common forms of sigma bonds are s+s, pz+pz, s+pz and dz2+dz2 (where z is defined as the axis of the bond or the internuclear axis). Quantum theory also indicates that molecular orbitals (MO) of identical symmetry actually mix or ''hybridize''. As a practical consequence of this mixing of diatomic molecules, the wavefunctions s+s and pz+pz molecular orbitals become blended. The extent of this mixing (or hybridization or blending) depends on the relative energies of the MOs of like symmetry. For homodiatomics ( homonuclear diatomic molecules), bonding σ orbit ...
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Cobalt
Cobalt is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Co and atomic number 27. As with nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in a chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, somewhat brittle, gray metal. Cobalt-based blue pigments (cobalt blue) have been used since antiquity for jewelry and paints, and to impart a distinctive blue tint to glass. The color was long thought to be due to the metal bismuth. Miners had long used the name ''kobold ore'' (German language, German for ''goblin ore'') for some of the blue pigment-producing minerals. They were so named because they were poor in known metals and gave off poisonous arsenic-containing fumes when smelted. In 1735, such ores were found to be reducible to a new metal (the first discovered since ancient times), which was ultimately named for the ''kobold''. Today, some cobalt is produced sp ...
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Ruthenium
Ruthenium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ru and atomic number 44. It is a rare transition metal belonging to the platinum group of the periodic table. Like the other metals of the platinum group, ruthenium is unreactive to most chemicals. Karl Ernst Claus, a Russian scientist of Baltic-German ancestry, discovered the element in 1844 at Kazan State University and named it in honor of Russia. (He used the Latin name '' Ruthenia'', which can have other meanings, but specifically stated that the element was named in honor of his "motherland".) Ruthenium is usually found as a minor component of platinum ores; the annual production has risen from about 19 tonnes in 2009 to some 35.5 tonnes in 2017. Most ruthenium produced is used in wear-resistant electrical contacts and thick-film resistors. A minor application for ruthenium is in platinum alloys and as a chemical catalyst. A new application of ruthenium is as the capping layer for extreme ultraviolet photoma ...
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Manganese
Manganese is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese was first isolated in the 1770s. It is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of industrial alloy uses, particularly in stainless steels. It improves strength, workability, and resistance to wear. Manganese oxide is used as an oxidising agent, as a rubber additive, and in glass making, fertilisers, and ceramics. Manganese sulfate can be used as a fungicide. Manganese is also an essential human dietary element, important in macronutrient metabolism, bone formation, and free radical defense systems. It is a critical component in dozens of proteins and enzymes. It is found mostly in the bones, but also the liver, kidneys, and brain. In the human brain, the manganese is bound to manganese metalloproteins, most notably glutamine synthetase in astrocytes. Manganese is commonly found in labo ...
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Electron Counting
In chemistry, electron counting is a formalism for assigning a number of valence electrons to individual atoms in a molecule. It is used for classifying compounds and for explaining or predicting their electronic structure and chemical bond, bonding. Many rules in chemistry rely on electron-counting: *Octet rule is used with Lewis structures for main group elements, especially the lighter ones such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, *18-electron rule in inorganic chemistry and organometallic chemistry of transition metals, *Hückel's rule for the pi electron, π-electrons of aromaticity, aromatic compounds, *Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory for Polyhedron, polyhedral cluster compounds, including transition metals and main group elements and mixtures thereof, such as boranes. Atoms are called "electron deficiency, electron-deficient" when they have too few electrons as compared to their respective rules, or "hypervalent molecule, hypervalent" when they have too many electron ...
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Sigma Complex
In chemistry, a sigma complex or σ-complex usually refers to a family of coordination complexes where one or more ligands interact with the metal using the bonding electrons in a sigma bond. Transition metal silane complexes are often especially stable sigma complexes. A particularly common subset of sigma complexes are those featuring an agostic interaction where a C–H σ-bond on one of its ligands 'leans' towards and interacts with the coordinatively unsaturated metal center to form a chelate. Transition metal alkane complexes (e.g., a methane complex) that bind solely through the C–H bond are also known but structurally characterized examples are rare, as C–H σ-bonds are generally poor electron donors, and, in many cases, the weakened C–H bond cleaves completely (C–H oxidative addition) to form a complex of type M(R)(H). In some cases, even C–C bonds function as sigma ligands. Significance Sigma complexes are of great mechanistic significance, despite their ...
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Metal-alkyne Complex
In organometallic chemistry, a transition metal alkyne complex is a coordination compound containing one or more alkyne ligands. Such compounds are intermediates in many catalytic reactions that convert alkynes to other organic products, e.g. hydrogenation and trimerization. Synthesis Transition metal alkyne complexes are often formed by the displacement of labile ligands by the alkyne. For example, a variety of cobalt-alkyne complexes arise by the reaction of alkynes with dicobalt octacarbonyl. : Many alkyne complexes are produced by reduction of metal halides: : Cp2TiCl2 + Mg + Me3SiC≡CSiMe3 → Cp2Ti CSiMe3)2+ MgCl2 Reactions Transition metal alkyne complexes participate in many reactions. Protonation of alkyne ligands gives alkenyl complexes: : Complexes of terminal alkenes are prone to rearrange to vinylidene derivatives: : The Pauson–Khand reaction provides a route to cyclopentenones via the intermediacy of cobalt-alkyne complexes. Structure and bonding The c ...
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Isomerization
In chemistry, isomerization or isomerisation is the process in which a molecule, polyatomic ion or molecular fragment is transformed into an isomer with a different chemical structure. Enolization is an example of isomerization, as is tautomerization. When the activation energy for the isomerization reaction is sufficiently small, both isomers can often be observed and the equilibrium ratio will shift in a temperature-dependent equilibrium with each other. Many values of the standard free energy difference, \Delta G^\circ, have been calculated, with good agreement between observed and calculated data. Examples and applications Alkanes Skeletal isomerization occurs in the cracking process, used in the petrochemical industry to convert straight chain alkanes to isoparaffins as exemplified in the conversion of normal octane to 2,5-dimethylhexane (an "isoparaffin"): : Fuels containing branched hydrocarbons are favored for internal combustion engines for their higher octan ...
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Vinylidene Bonding Final
Methylidenecarbene (systematically named λ2-ethene and dihydrido-1κ2''H''-dicarbon(''C''—''C'')) is an organic compound with the chemical formula (also written [] or ). It is a metastability, metastable proton tautomer of acetylene, which only persists as an adduct. It is a colourless gas that phosphoresces in the far-infrared range. It is the simplest unsaturated carbene. Nomenclature The systematic names ''λ2-ethene'', and ''dihydrido-1κ2H-dicarbon(C—C)'', valid IUPAC names, are constructed according to the substitutive and additive nomenclatures, respectively. In appropriate contexts, methylidenecarbene can be viewed as ethene with two hydrogen atoms removed, or as ethane with four hydrogens removed; and as such, ''ethen-1-ylidene'' (or ''vinylidene'') or ''ethane-1-diylidene'', respectively, may be used as a context-specific systematic names, according to substitutive nomenclature. By default, these names pay no regard to the radicality of the methylidenecarbene m ...
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Atomic Orbital
In quantum mechanics, an atomic orbital () is a Function (mathematics), function describing the location and Matter wave, wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom. This function describes an electron's Charge density, charge distribution around the Atomic nucleus, atom's nucleus, and can be used to calculate the probability of finding an electron in a specific region around the nucleus. Each orbital in an atom is characterized by a set of values of three quantum numbers , , and , which respectively correspond to electron's energy, its angular momentum, orbital angular momentum, and its orbital angular momentum projected along a chosen axis (magnetic quantum number). The orbitals with a well-defined magnetic quantum number are generally complex-valued. Real-valued orbitals can be formed as linear combinations of and orbitals, and are often labeled using associated Spherical harmonics#Harmonic polynomial representation, harmonic polynomials (e.g., ''xy'', ) which describe ...
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Orbital Hybridisation
In chemistry, orbital hybridisation (or hybridization) is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals to form new ''hybrid orbitals'' (with different energies, shapes, etc., than the component atomic orbitals) suitable for the pairing of electrons to form chemical bonds in valence bond theory. For example, in a carbon atom which forms four single bonds, the valence-shell s orbital combines with three valence-shell p orbitals to form four equivalent sp3 mixtures in a tetrahedral arrangement around the carbon to bond to four different atoms. Hybrid orbitals are useful in the explanation of molecular geometry and atomic bonding properties and are symmetrically disposed in space. Usually hybrid orbitals are formed by mixing atomic orbitals of comparable energies. History and uses Chemist Linus Pauling first developed the hybridisation theory in 1931 to explain the structure of simple molecules such as methane (CH4) using atomic orbitals. Pauling pointed out that a carbon atom forms four ...
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