Valence bridge

Rule 3. When a valence bridge — i.e., contains no carbon — is present, the ring carbon skeleton is completely numbered by Rule 2. This is the case for thujane and carane. 

Caged compounds contain several valence bridges. They can show very large rotations, as exemplified by the "triblattanes prepared by Nakazaki and coworkers (reviewed... 

Fig. 7 Schematic MO energy level diagram showing the possible electronic transitions in a mixed-valence bridged complex of the form [M2-bridge-M2] . Adapted from [26]...

Localized Bonds. Because boron hydrides have more valence orbitals than valence electrons, they have often been called electron-deficient molecules. This electron deficiency is partiy responsible for the great interest surrounding borane chemistry and molecular stmcture. The stmcture of even the simplest boron hydride, diborane(6) [19287-45-7] 2 6 sufficientiy challenging that it was debated for years before finally being resolved (57) in favor of the hydrogen bridged stmcture shown. 

Structure. The CO molecule coordinates in the ways shown diagrammaticaHy in Figure 1. Terminal carbonyls are the most common. Bridging carbonyls are common in most polynuclear metal carbonyls. As depicted, metal—metal bonds also play an important role in polynuclear metal carbonyls. The metal atoms in carbonyl complexes show a strong tendency to use ak their valence orbitals in forming bonds. These include the n + 1)5 and the n + l)p orbitals. As a result, use of the 18-electron rule is successflil in predicting the stmcture of most metal carbonyls. 

The parent thionine system 1 up to now has not been prepared probably because the C-S bond in valence isomeric forms is too weak giving rise to facile rearrangement or decomposition. The obvious synthetic route, photochemical transformation of cyclooctatetraenccpisulfide 2 (9-thiabicyclo[6.1.0]nona-2,4,6-triene), does not lead to 1, but intriguingly to another valence isomer, the sulfur-bridged homotropylidene system 3.20... 

The mixed-valence ion has an intervalence charge transfer band at 1562nm not present in the spectra of the +4 and +6 ions. Similar ions have been isolated with other bridging ligands, the choice of which has a big effect on the position and intensity of the charge-transfer band (e.g. L = bipy, 830 nm). 

In general, the dimers have three chlorine bridges, and Ru3C18(PBu3)4 resembles the mixed-valence chloro complex Ru3Cl 2. A similar, but less extensively studied, pattern of behaviour has been found with other alkyl phosphines. 

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