Metal-silicon bond compounds ligands

The application of classical and non-classical (photoacoustic) reaction-solution calorimetry to probe the energetics of metal-ligand bonds in organometallic systems is briefly analysed and illustrated by thermochemical results involving two families of compounds. The classical reaction-solution studies enabled the discussion of the systematics of metal-carbon bond enthalpies in several complexes M(t) -C H ) L. The photoacoustic studies addressed the effect of phenyl goups on the energetics of silicon-hydrogen bonds in phenyl-substituted silanes. 

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