Τετραπλοί δεσμοί μετάλλου-μετάλλου και η πρωτονίωσή τους

The landmark discovery of the quadruple bonds in [Re₂Cl₈]²⁻ and [Mo₂Cl₈]²⁻ by F. A. Cotton and his collaborators over a period of twenty years starting in 1964 has opened a completely new field in Inorganic and Organometallic chemistry involving multiple bonds of order higher than 3. The reactivity of such higher order bonds forms a chemistry in itself.

We have investigated various aspects of this chemistry, and in particular the protonation of Mo and W quadruple homo- and heterodimetallic bonds. The reactivity is found to depend on the metals, the ligands and very much on the solvent which must be explicitly included.

During these investigations, some very interesting four center Kubas structures were located and proposed as possible stable compounds.

Key Publications

J. Organometallic Chem. 766, 67 (2014)

Chem. Phys. Lett. 583, 18 (2013)

Polyhedron 54, 173 (2013)