Bridge, electron deficient

The compact bond diagrams of planar and perpendicular hypervalent l2 6 those of staggered and bridged "electron deficient" B2Hg are shown in Figures 4 and 5. 

This is known as a hydrogen-bridge structure. There are not enough electrons to make all the dotted-line bonds electron-pairs and hence it is an example of an electron-deficient compound. The structure of diborane may be alternatively shown as drawn in... 

Localized Bonds. Because boron hydrides have more valence orbitals than valence electrons, they have often been called electron-deficient molecules. This electron deficiency is partiy responsible for the great interest surrounding borane chemistry and molecular stmcture. The stmcture of even the simplest boron hydride, diborane(6) [19287-45-7] 2 6 sufficientiy challenging that it was debated for years before finally being resolved (57) in favor of the hydrogen bridged stmcture shown. 

It is believed that this process involves migration through a pentacoordinate protonated cyclopropane in which an alkyl group acts as a bridge in an electron-deficient carbocation structure. The cyclohexyl- methylcyclopentyl rearrangement is postulated to occur by rearrangement between two such structures. 

A mercurinium ion has both similarities and differences as compared with the intermediates that have been described for other electrophilic additions. The proton that initiates acid-catalyzed addition processes is a hard acid and has no imshared electrons. It can form either a carbocation or a hydrogen-bridged cation. Either species is electron-deficient and highly reactive. 

The positive bromine which leads to bromonium ion intermediates is softer and also has unshared electron pairs which can permit a total of four electrons to participate in the bridged bromonium ion intermediate. This would be expected to lead to a more strongly bridged and more stable species than is possible in the case of the proton. The bromonium ion can be represented as having two covalent bonds to bromine and is electrophilic but not electron-deficient. 

The boranes are electron-deficient compounds (Section 3.8) we cannot write valid Lewis structures for them, because too few electrons are available. For instance, there are 8 atoms in diborane, so we need at least 7 bonds however, there are only 12 valence electrons, and so we can form at most 6 electron-pair bonds. In molecular orbital theory, these electron pairs are regarded as delocalized over the entire molecule, and their bonding power is shared by several atoms. In diborane, for instance, a single electron pair is delocalized over a B—H—B unit. It binds all three atoms together with bond order of 4 for each of the B—H bridging bonds. The molecule has two such bridging three-center bonds (9). 

Iron centers that are more electron-deficient than iron(III) compounds are used for efficient and highly specific oxidation reactions in, for example, heme and nonheme enzymes [166-172]. Most iron(IV)-complexes found in biological reaction cycles possess terminal or bridging 0x0 groups as is known from a large number of structural and spectroscopic investigations. With the exception of iron(IV)-nitrido groups, nonoxo iron(IV) centers very rarely take part in such reactions. 

Stronger distortion in compound 81 results from the formation of an electron deficient Si-H-B bridge <2003CEJ4732, 2006AOM443>. 

A possible formulation for I is illustrated below. This could be formed by the heterolytic cleavage of a Ru-Ru bond an corresponding movement of a carbonyl from a terminal site to a bridging one to maintain the charge neutrality of both Ru atoms. The result would be to leave one ruthenium atom electron deficient (a 16 electron species) and capable of coordinating a two electron donor to give another intermediate I. ... 

Diarylmethylenecyclopropa[6]naphthalenes 14, unlike their benzene parent counterparts which give cycloaddition reactions at the cyclopropene bridge bond [10a], react on the exo double bond in Diels-Alder cycloadditions (see Sect. 2.1.1) [10b]. The reactions of 14 with the highly electron-deficient acetylenic(phenyl)iodonium triflate 584 give products 586a and 587, which are believed to derive from unstable primary [2 + 2] cycloadducts 585 (Scheme 82) [10b],... 

The details of how nitroaromatic explosive molecules interact with the chromo-phores in the polymer matrix requires further study. Initial observations suggest that because nitroaromatic explosive molecules are highly electron-deficient, that chro-mophores have an electron-rich donor and bridge, and that both nitroaromatic explosives and chromophores are highly polar, explosive molecules and chromo-phores have a strong tendency to interact with each other. The interaction between explosives and the polymer takes place in two steps. In the initial step nitroaromatic explosive molecules create a more polar environment around the chromophores. The increased polar environment produces a solvatochromic red-shift of the... 

Natta s bimetallic mechanism stipulates that when the catalyst and cocatalyst components are mixed, the chemisorption of the aluminium alkyl (electropositive in nature) occurs on the titanium chloride solid surface which results in the formation of an electron-deficient bridge complex of the structure shown... 

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