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Phosphinidenes [1] are low-valent organophosphorus compounds that have attracted attention since the early 1980s when they were first discovered [2]. They are known in two classifications, one being the six-electron singly substituted phosphorus species (A) and the other in which the phosphorus atom carries an additional ri -stabifizing group, typically, but not necessarily, a transition metal group (B). Much has been learned about the reactivities of the complexed phos-... 

It is remarkable that the energy scale given by the chemical potential of an approximate wave function can lead to an energy close to that of the exact wave function. The implications are, of course, very great. But it is by no means certain that these results for a two-electron, single-orbital system, can be generalized. 

Each external (i.e., terminal) B-H bond is regarded as a typical two-center two-electron single bond requiring the hydrogen Is orbital, one hybridized boron orbital, and one electron each from the H and the B atoms. Because of the small electronegativity difference between hydrogen and boron, these bonds are assumed to be non-polar. In the polynuclear boron hydrides every boron atom may form zero or one but never more than two such external B-H bonds. 

Scheme 21. Generation of four-valence-electron, singly coordinated organometallic group 14 cations by a 1,1-elimination reaction from RsE cations and its potential reaction scheme. ...

The large bond angle in NO2 is due to a lone electron (single electron—not a lone pair) in the ideal trigonal planar geometry. 

To consider why the two-orbital two-electron single bond formation case can be more complex than often thought, let us consider the H2 system in more detail. In the molecular orbital description of H2, both bonding og and antibonding ou mos appear. 

A Physical Electronics single-pass CMA and a Phi 4-grid LEED Optics unit were used in the studies of metal films on Ti02. Pd and Au films were evaporated from high-density alumina effusion sources. 

Fig. 6.30 CV curves calculated from Eqs. (6.191) to (6.192) for an EE mechanism ( A = O.OlmV, solid lines) and from (6.166) for two independent electron transfers (idashed lines) and an apparent simultaneous two-electron single transfer (dashed-dotted lines). These curves have been calculated for three values of the dimensionless rate constant of the first step, X2h and three values of AE (shown in the curves). iljj42i = 0.1 for the EE mechanism and the two independent electron transfers. For the two-electron single transfer, it has been assumed that the formal potential coincides with the average potential of the EE mechanism and Q = Qy. a = 0.5. T=29S K. Reproduced with permission from [68]...

Instead, practical methods involve a subset of possible Slater determinants, especially those in which two electrons are moved from the orbitals they occupy in the HF wavefunction into empty orbitals. These doubly excited determinants provide a description of the physical effect missing in HF theory, correlation between the motions of different electrons. Single and triple excitations are also included in some correlated ab initio methods. Different methods use different techniques to decide which determinants to include, and all these methods are computationally more expensive than HF theory, in some cases considerably more. Single-reference correlated methods start from the HF wavefunction and include various excited determinants. Important methods in inorganic chemistry include Mpller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2), coupled cluster theory with single and double excitations (CCSD), and a modified form of CCSD that also accounts approximately for triple excitations, CCSD(T). 

Table 3.3.2 summarizes the various properties of second-row homonuclear diatomic molecules. In the last column of the table, we list the bond order between atoms A and B in the molecule AB. Simply put, the bond order is a number that gives an indication of its strength relative to that of a two-electron single bond. Thus the bond order ofHf (cr ) is 1/2, while that of H2 (afs) is 1. For a system with antibonding electrons, we take the simplistic view that one antibonding electron cancels out one bonding electron. Thus the bond orders in lief (ofs o-j 1) and He2 (ofs aj s2) are 1 /2 and 0, respectively, and helium is not expected to form a diatomic molecule. 

When we made the allyl cation from allyl bromide, the bromine atom left as bromide ion taking both the electrons from the C-Br bond with it—the C-Br bond broke heterolytically. What if the bond broke homolytically—that is, carbon and bromine each had one electron A bromine atom and an allyl radical (remember a radical has an unpaired electron) would be formed, This reaction can be shown using the singleheaded fish hook curly arrows from Chapter 5 normal double-headed arrows show the movement of two electrons single-headed arrows show the movement of one. 

Table 1. Valence states of a general atom X and their VVS. All the valence states are considered in the frame of octet-chemistry. NSDT is number of n-electrons, single, double, and triple bonds...

The reduction of cytochrome P450 hy NADPH involves a single enzyme, NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase, which contains both FAD and riboflavin phosphate. The FAD undergoes a two-electron reduction at the expense of NADPH, then transfers electrons singly to the riboflavin phosphate, which in turn reduces cytochrome P450. The semiquinone radicals of both FAD and riboflavin phosphate are intermediates in this reaction. 

Uesaka M, Tauchi K, Kozawa T, Kobayashi T, Ueda T, Miya K. (1994) Generation of a subpicosecond relativistic electron single bunch at the S-band Knear-accelerator. Phys Rev E 50 3068-3076. 

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