Organometallics

Reaction of metal carbonyl anions with metal carbonyl dimers: thermodynamic and kinetic factors that control the reactions

MS Corraine, JD Atwood

Index: Corraine, M. Shauna; Atwood, Jim D. Organometallics, 1991 , vol. 10, p. 2315 - 2318

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Abstract

To determine the thermodynamic parameters, we have derived values for the two-electron- reduction potentials (Ma+ 2e--2M-) and shown that these values correctly predict the direction of reaction. The order of these reduction potentials is (all are negative) CO~(CO)~>