Molecular orbital calculations ligand geometry

Pertinent reviews published during 1980 cover cyclometallation of P-donor ligands, CO insertion into metal-carbon o-bonds, mechanistic features of catalytic CO hydrogenation reactions, and stoicheiometric reactions of transition-metal carbene complexes. Other articles of interest deal with the stability of metal-carbon bonds, " transition-state geometry for insertion of metals into C-H bonds, organic synthesis using Group VIII metal complexes, and C-H bond activation by transition metals. " Molecular orbital calculations on the interconversion of metal bis(olefin) and metallocyclo-pentane complexes have been reported. ... 

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