Other Spin-Forbidden Reactions of Transition Metal Compounds

Other Spin-Forbidden Reactions of Transition Metal Compounds 

In 2003, we presented two reviews concerning spin-forbidden reactions in transition metal chemistry (10,16). A number of other reviews in 2004 addressed closely related topics (90,91). However, since then, we are not aware of any review on this topic. We, therefore, present a short discussion of a number of recent studies of reactivity in transition metal chemistry for processes involving changes in spin-state. The aim here is not to be exhaustive, as there are now quite a lot of studies of transition metal chemistry that address the topic of spin-state changes. Instead, this is an attempt to give a flavor of the types of question that are being addressed now and the techniques used to investigate them. 

18-electron singlet species occurs, and so on. These different steps were explored using appropriate computations to provide the first general picture of the overall mechanism that accounts for nearly all the experimental observations. 

In conclusion to this short section, it can be seen that the literature now contains quite a lot of examples of reactions 

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