Ligand Substitution Reactions in Carbonyl Metal Clusters

3 Ligand Substitution Reactions in Carbonyl Metal Clusters 

Although the mechanisms of cluster reactions in general have been not extensively studied, there are a couple of studies dealing with the mechanism of ligand substitution processes. 

Three classes of reaction pathways may be distinguished in cluster substitution reactions  

Associative mechanisms (A). The reaction proceeds through the association of the reactants via a demonstrable intermediate in which the cluster metal 

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