Phosphorus heteroatom effects

The dipole moment of phosphabenzene is reinforced by the methyl group shown in (147) and increases it from 1.46 to 1.77 D thus it resembles pyridine, which has the heteroatom at the negative end of the dipole.181 The magnitudes and trends of the dipole moments of the methylphosphines have been investigated by MO studies and the dipoles partitioned into bond moments, bond polarization, and lone-pair moments.182 The reciprocal effects of the double bond and the phosphorus atom in... 

Metal-phosphine bonds can generally be modeled in much the same way as any other metal-heteroatom bond. The fact that phosphines participate in x-backbonding (filled dn (metal) -> empty d or a (phosphorus) interaction) is only of importance for generic force field parameterization schemes, and half-integer bond orders have been used to describe the effect of x-back-donation[ 153). In the usually adopted empirical force field formalism, x-bonding effects, like most of the other structural/elec-tronic effects, are accommodated by the general parameter-fitting procedure (see Parts I and III). 

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