ÁLVAREZ , Santiago

A DFT computational study and a structural analysis of the coordination of arenes to transition metals in low -hapticity (η1 and η2) modes have been developed, including a pseudosymmetry analysis of the molecular orbitals and the introduction of a hapticity map that makes evident the different degrees of intermediate hapticities. Calculations...

LiCH3 and LiCH2CH3 react with the complex [Mo2(H)2(μ-AdDipp2)2(thf)2] (1⋅thf) with coordination of two molecules of LiCH2R (R=H, CH3) and formation of complexes [Mo2{μ-HLi(thf)CH2R}2(AdDipp2)2], 5⋅LiCH3 and 5⋅LiCH2CH3, respectively (AdDipp2=HC(NDipp)2; Dipp=2,6-iPr2C6H3; thf=C4H8O). Due to steric hindrance, only one molecule of LiC6H5 adds to...

To clarify the nature of the Mo[BOND]Carene interaction in terphenyl complexes with quadruple Mo[BOND]Mo bonds, ether adducts of composition [Mo2(Ar′)(I)(O2CR)2(OEt2)] have been prepared and characterized (Ar′=ArXyl2, R=Me; Ar′=ArMes2, R=Me; Ar′=ArXyl2, R=CF3) (Mes=mesityl; Xyl=2,6-Me2C6H3, from now on xylyl) and their reactivity toward...

We describe the synthesis and the molecular and electronic structures of the complex [Mo2Me2{μ‐HC(NDipp)2}2] (2; Dipp=2,6‐iPr2C6H3), which contains a dimetallic core with an Mo–Mo quadruple bond and features uncommon four‐coordinate geometry and has a fourteen‐electron count for each molybdenum atom. The coordination polyhedron approaches a...

The reactions of LiAlH4 as the source of LiH with complexes that contain (H)Mo≣Mo and (H)Mo≣Mo(H) cores stabilized by the coordination of bulky AdDipp2 ligands result in the respective coordination of one and two molecules of (thf)LiH, with the generation of complexes exhibiting one and two HLi(thf)H ligands extending across the Mo≣Mo bond...