Ekkert O, White AJP, Crimmin MR. Trajectory of Approach of a Zinc-Hydrogen Bond to Transition Metals.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016;
55:16031-16034. [PMID:
27879025 DOI:
10.1002/anie.201608599]
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Abstract
Through a dramatic advance in the coordination chemistry of the zinc-hydride bond, we describe the trajectory for the approach of this bond to transition metals. The dynamic reaction coordinate was interrogated through analysis of a series of solid state structures and is one in which the TM-H-Zn angle becomes increasingly acute as the TM-Zn distance decreases. Parallels may be drawn with the oxidative addition of boron-hydrogen and silicon-hydrogen bonds to transition metal centers.
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