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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 126, Issue 18, Pages 5789-5797Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja049346q
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Spin changes occur often in organometallic chemistry, and their effect on kinetics is not well understood. We report computations on the singlet and triplet potential energy surfaces of several processes of this type and show that the topology of the individual surfaces, as well as of the crossing regions between them, can be used to rationalize the observed reactivity in all cases. In particular, the slow addition of dihydrogen to W[N(CH2CH2NSiMe3)(3)]H (Schrock, R. R.; Shih, K. Y.; Dobbs, D. A.; Davis, W. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 6609) is shown to be a spin-blocked reaction with a high barrier due to the crossing between reactant triplet and product singlet surfaces. In contrast, addition of CO to TpCo(CO) (Detrich, J. L.; Reinaud, O. M.; Rheingold, A. L.; Theopold, K. H. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117,11745) is fast because the triplet and singlet surfaces cross at low energy. Particular care is taken to use DFT methods which are in adequate agreement with experimental and high-level computational energetics for these systems.
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