University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Chemistry Faculty Publications Chemistry 2009 Radical Bonding: Structure and Stability of Bis(Phenalenyl) Complexes of Divalent Metals from across the Periodic Table Smaranda Craciun Kelling J. Donald University of Richmond,
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[email protected]. 5810 Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 5810–5819 DOI: 10.1021/ic900058q Radical Bonding: Structure and Stability of Bis(Phenalenyl) Complexes of Divalent Metals from across the Periodic Table Smaranda Craciun and Kelling J. Donald* Department of Chemistry, Gottwald Center for the Sciences, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 23173 Received January 12, 2009 We examine the bonding possibilities of the bis(phenalenyl) MP2 sandwich complexes of the divalent metals M = Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zn, Cd, and Hg, at the B3LYP level of theory. The outcome is an extraordinarily diverse class of low symmetry bis(phenalenyl)metal complexes in which bonding preferences and binding enthalpies differ dramatically. 1 3 6 6 The lowest energy group 2 metal MP2 complexes include an intriguing η ,η BeP2 structure, and bent η ,η systems for M = Ca, Sr, and Ba.