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In chemistry, pi backbonding or π backbonding is a Pi bond, π-bonding interaction between a filled (or half filled) Atomic orbital, orbital of a transition metal atom and a vacant Atomic orbital, orbital on an adjacent ion or molecule. In this type of interaction, electrons from the metal are used to bond to the ligand, which dissipates excess negative Electric charge, charge and stabilizes the metal. It is common in transition metals with low oxidation states that have ligands such as Metal carbonyl, carbon monoxide, olefins, or phosphines. The ligands involved in π backbonding can be broken into three groups: Metal carbonyl, carbonyls and nitrogen analogs, alkenes and alkynes, and phosphines. Compounds where π backbonding is prominent include Nickel carbonyl, Ni(CO)4, Zeise's salt, and Abiological nitrogen fixation using homogeneous catalysts, molybdenum and iron dinitrogen complexes. Metal carbonyls, nitrosyls, and isocyanides The electrons are partially transferred from a ...
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during chemical reaction, reactions with other chemical substance, substances. Chemistry also addresses the nature of chemical bonds in chemical compounds. In the scope of its subject, chemistry occupies an intermediate position between physics and biology. It is sometimes called the central science because it provides a foundation for understanding both Basic research, basic and Applied science, applied scientific disciplines at a fundamental level. For example, chemistry explains aspects of plant growth (botany), the formation of igneous rocks (geology), how atmospheric ozone is formed and how environmental pollutants are degraded (ecology), the prop ...
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IR Spectroscopy
Infrared spectroscopy (IR spectroscopy or vibrational spectroscopy) is the measurement of the interaction of infrared radiation with matter by absorption, emission, or reflection. It is used to study and identify chemical substances or functional groups in solid, liquid, or gaseous forms. It can be used to characterize new materials or identify and verify known and unknown samples. The method or technique of infrared spectroscopy is conducted with an instrument called an infrared spectrometer (or spectrophotometer) which produces an infrared spectrum. An IR spectrum can be visualized in a graph of infrared light absorbance (or transmittance) on the vertical axis vs. frequency, wavenumber or wavelength on the horizontal axis. Typical units of wavenumber used in IR spectra are reciprocal centimeters, with the symbol cm−1. Units of IR wavelength are commonly given in micrometers (formerly called "microns"), symbol μm, which are related to the wavenumber in a reciprocal way. ...
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Hexafluoro-2-butyne
Hexafluoro-2-butyne (HFB) is a fluorocarbon with the chemical structure CF3C≡CCF3. HFB is a particularly electrophilic alkyne, acetylene derivative (chemistry), derivative, and hence a potent dienophile for Diels–Alder reactions. Synthesis and reactions HFB is prepared by the action of sulfur tetrafluoride on acetylenedicarboxylic acid or by the reaction of potassium fluoride (KF) with hexachlorobutadiene. In the presence of the strong Lewis acid aluminium chlorofluoride, hexafluorobutadiene isomerizes to HFB: : HFB reacts with sulfur to give 3,4-Bis(trifluoromethyl)-1,2-dithiete, 3,4-bis(trifluoromethyl)-1,2-dithiete. Cycloaddition of HFB and Dithionitronium hexafluoroarsenate, dithionitronium (NS2+) gives the 1,2,5-dithiazolium cation. This derivative can be reduced to the 7 electron neutral radical. This particular 1,3,5-dithiazole is also rare example of a radical that can be obtained as solid, liquid, and gaseous states. As a gas, it is blue. As an electrophilic alk ...
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Tetracyanoethylene
Tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) is organic compound with the formula . It is a colorless solid, although samples are often off-white. It is an important member of the cyanocarbons. Synthesis and reactions TCNE is prepared by brominating malononitrile in the presence of potassium bromide to give the KBr-complex, and dehalogenating with copper. Oxidation of TCNE with hydrogen peroxide gives the corresponding epoxide, which has unusual properties. In the presence of base, TCNE reacts with malononitrile to give salts of pentacyanopropenide: : Redox chemistry TCNE is an electron acceptor. Cyano groups have low energy Ï€* orbitals, and the presence of four such groups, with their Ï€ systems (conjugated) to the central double bond, gives rise to an electrophilic alkene. TCNE is reduced at −0.27 V vs ferrocene/ ferrocenium: : Because of its ability to accept an electron, TCNE has been used to prepare numerous charge-transfer salts and magnetic molecular materials. The cent ...
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Tetrafluoroethylene
Tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) is a fluorocarbon with the chemical formula . It is a colorless gas. Its structure is . It is used primarily in the industrial preparation of fluoropolymers. It is the simplest perfluorinated alkene. It was first reported as "dicarbon tetrafluoride" in 1890. Properties Tetrafluoroethylene is a synthetic colorless, odorless gas that is insoluble in water. Like all unsaturated fluorocarbons, it is susceptible to nucleophilic attack. It is unstable towards decomposition to carbon and carbon tetrafluoride () and prone to form explosive peroxides in contact with air. Industrial use Polymerization of tetrafluoroethylene produces polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) polymers such as Teflon and Fluon. PTFE is one of the two fluorocarbon resins composed wholly of fluorine and carbon. The other resin composed purely of carbon and fluorine is the copolymer of TFE with typically 6–9% hexafluoropropene (HFP), which is known as FEP (fluorinated ethylene propylene c ...
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Coordination Complex
A coordination complex is a chemical compound consisting of a central atom or ion, which is usually metallic and is called the ''coordination centre'', and a surrounding array of chemical bond, bound molecules or ions, that are in turn known as ''ligands'' or complexing agents. Many metal-containing chemical compound, compounds, especially those that include transition metals (elements like titanium that belong to the periodic table's d-block), are coordination complexes. Nomenclature and terminology Coordination complexes are so pervasive that their structures and reactions are described in many ways, sometimes confusingly. The atom within a ligand that is bonded to the central metal atom or ion is called the donor atom. In a typical complex, a metal ion is bonded to several donor atoms, which can be the same or different. A Ligand#Polydentate and polyhapto ligand motifs and nomenclature, polydentate (multiple bonded) ligand is a molecule or ion that bonds to the central atom ...
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Cis Effect
In inorganic chemistry, the cis effect is defined as the labilization (or destabilization) of CO ligands that are ''cis'' to other ligands. CO is a well-known strong pi-accepting ligand in organometallic chemistry that will labilize in the ''cis'' position when adjacent to ligands due to steric and electronic effects. The system most often studied for the ''cis'' effect is an octahedral complex where X is the ligand that will labilize a CO ligand ''cis'' to it. Unlike the ''trans'' effect, which is most often observed in 4-coordinate square planar complexes, the ''cis'' effect is observed in 6-coordinate octahedral transition metal complexes. It has been determined that ligands that are weak sigma donors and non-pi acceptors seem to have the strongest ''cis''-labilizing effects. Therefore, the ''cis'' effect has the opposite trend of the ''trans''-effect, which effectively labilizes ligands that are ''trans'' to strong pi accepting and sigma donating ligands. Electron coun ...
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Isocyanide
An isocyanide (also called isonitrile or carbylamine) is an organic compound with the functional group –. It is the isomer of the related nitrile (–C≡N), hence the prefix is ''isocyano''.IUPAC Goldboo''isocyanides''/ref> The organic fragment is connected to the isocyanide group through the nitrogen atom, not via the carbon. They are used as building blocks for the synthesis of other compounds. Properties Structure and bonding The C-N distance in isocyanides is 115.8 pm in methyl isocyanide. The C-N-C angles are near 180°. Akin to carbon monoxide, isocyanides are described by two Resonance (chemistry), resonance structures, one with a triple bond between the nitrogen and the carbon and one with a double bond between. The π lone pair of the nitrogen stabilizes the structure and is responsible of the linearity of isocyanides, although the reactivity of isocyanides reflects some carbene character, at least in a formal sense. Thus, both resonance structures are useful repres ...
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