TY - JOUR
T1 - Molecular-orbital studies on carbametallaboranes. Part 3. Tricapped trigonal prismatic carbaplatinaborane and related polyhedral molecules
AU - P. Mingos, D. Michael
AU - Welch, Alan J.
PY - 1980
Y1 - 1980
N2 - Extended Hückel molecular-orbital calculations are reported for the trigonal prismatic platinaboranes and carbaplatinaboranes [B8Pt(PH3)2}H8]2- and [B6C2{Pt(PH3)2}H8], and the observed conformations of these molecules have been accounted for in terms of the nodal characteristics of the frontier orbitals of the constituent Pt(PH3)2 and carbaborane fragments. A description of the bonding in the less symmetrical isomer of [B6C2{Pt(PH3)2}H8] has been similarly derived from an analysis of the effect of transforming nido-[B8H8]2- into arachno-[B8H8]2-.
AB - Extended Hückel molecular-orbital calculations are reported for the trigonal prismatic platinaboranes and carbaplatinaboranes [B8Pt(PH3)2}H8]2- and [B6C2{Pt(PH3)2}H8], and the observed conformations of these molecules have been accounted for in terms of the nodal characteristics of the frontier orbitals of the constituent Pt(PH3)2 and carbaborane fragments. A description of the bonding in the less symmetrical isomer of [B6C2{Pt(PH3)2}H8] has been similarly derived from an analysis of the effect of transforming nido-[B8H8]2- into arachno-[B8H8]2-.
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U2 - 10.1039/DT9800001674
DO - 10.1039/DT9800001674
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:37049092817
SN - 1472-7773
SP - 1674
EP - 1681
JO - Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions
JF - Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions
IS - 9
ER -