Containing metal-oxygen bonds species

RLH catalysts do not contain strong acid sites and easy reducible metal cations but have strongly nucleophilic (proton-acceptor) oxygen atoms and weak acid sites. The hydrocarbon molecule could be adsorbed as a result of proton abstraction by strongly nucleophilic lattice oxygen without splitting the metal-oxygen bond and stabilization of proton and carbcation in form of OH and alkyl species ... 

In—W bond. Use of Ph3Al leads to a complex in which the oxygen atom of a carbonyl ligand is the site of electron pair basicity in a WC=OAl link. Solutions of [n-Bu4N][Ph3GaCpW(CO)3] in CH2CI2 contain, in addition to free [CpW(CO)3], two isomeric complexes a metal-metal-bonded species and a C- and O-bonded adduct of the type found in the Ph3Al case. 

Contrary to previous reports suggesting colloidal metal as the active species in Pt-catalyzed hydrosilylations, the catalyst was found to be a monomeric platinum compound with silicon and carbon in the first coordination sphere.615 The platinum end product at excess olefin concentration contains only platinum-carbon bonds, whereas at high hydrosilane concentration, it is multinuclear and also contains platinum-silicon bonds. An explanation of the oxygen effect in hydrosilylation was also given to show that oxygen serves to disrupt multinuclear platinum species that are formed when poorly stabilizing olefins are employed. 

Only a small amount of research has been published dealing with the reactions of / -diketones with clean metal surfaces.513,514 The interaction of acetylacetone with iron and nickel films under ultra high vacuum conditions has been investigated. X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy is a particularly useful analytical probe as data on gas phase metal acetylacetonates are available for comparison.515 On iron, dissociative adsorption giving acetylacetonate occurs at 90 K. This decomposes at about 290 K to form surface oxide, chemisorbed oxygen and a species considered to contain Fe—C bonds. 

The chemistry of the niobium-tantalum pair is quite similar to that of the zirconium-hafnium pair. In aqueous media, all solvated species containing these elements have either metal-to-oxygen bonds, metal-to-fluorine bonds, or both. 

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