Group Complexes of BeO

To investigate complexes of the Lewis acid BeO may seem strange from the experimental point of view. BeO is a polymeric solid with a high melting point and it is very difficult to obtain monomeric BeO. Moreover, beryllium is very poisonous and its compounds are difficult 

For applications of quantum chemical methods on transition metal compounds see the articles which appeared in the special issue on Computational Transition Metal Chemistry in Chem. Rev. 100 (2000). 

Frohlich and G. Frenking, Solid State Organometallic Chemistry Methods and Application, M. Gielen and B. Wrackmeyer (Eds.), Wiley-VCH, New York (1999) p.173. 

Lupinetti, S. H. Strauss, and G. Frenking, Prog. Inorg. Chem., in press. 

Diedenhofen, T. Wagener, and G. Frenking, Computational Organometallic Chemistry Marcell Dekker, New York, in print. 

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