title: Coordinating ability of anions and solvents towards transition metals and lanthanides.
abstract: A scale that attempts to quantify the weakly coordinating character of a variety of solvents and anions is presented. For each group (solvent or anion), a coordinating ability index has been calculated, based on the probability of it being coordinated in the presence of a transition metal atom, compared to the probability of finding it as a solvation molecule or as non-coordinating counterion in a crystal structure. The corresponding index is also defined for the same groups in the presence of lanthanides, and the similarities and differences are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Departament de Química Inorgànica and Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1-11, 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Raúl
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Díaz-Torres
authors.forename: Santiago
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alvarez