title: Effects of pi-bonding on stability and reactivity in
abstract: Recent synthetic and theoretical investigations of organometallic compounds containing the CpCr(NO) fragment have shown an interdependence of the electronic nature of ancillary ligands and the stability of a given Cr oxidation state. Understanding the correlation between ligand pi-bonding properties and the nature of the metal-based frontier orbitals permits the rationalization of observed reactivity patterns, and the identification and preparation of new classes of target molecules.
authors.affiliation: University of Bourgogne, France.
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: McNeil
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Legzdins