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JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 27, Issue 12, Pages 1278-1291Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.20413
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transition-metal dinitrogen complexes; nitrogenase; mechanistic studies
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SDinitrogen complexes of transition metals exhibit different binding geometries of N-2 (end-on terminal, end-on bridging, side-on bridging, side-on end-on bridging), which are investigated by spectroscopy and DFT calculations, analyzing their electronic structure and reactivity. For comparison, a bis(mu-nitrido) complex, where the N-N bond has been split, has been studied as well. Most of these systems are highly covalent, and have strong metal-nitrogen bonds. In the present review, particular emphasis is put on a consideration of the activation of the coordinated dinitrogen ligand, making it susceptible to protonation, reactions with electrophiles or cleavage. In this context, theoretical, structural, and spectroscopic data giving informations on the amount of charge on the N-2 unit are presented. The orbital interactions leading to a charge transfer from the metals to the dinitrogen ligand and the charge distribution within the coordinated N-2 group are analyzed. Correlations between the binding mode and the observed reactivity of N-2 are discussed. (c) 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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