Metal–CO Bonding in Mononuclear Transition Metal Carbonyl Complexes
Gernot Frenking, Israel Fernández, Nicole Holzmann, Sudip Pan, Ingo Krossing, Mingfei Zhou
Abstract
π-backdonation. The heavier alkaline earth metals calcium, strontium and barium use their s/d valence orbitals for covalent bonding. They are therefore to be assigned to the transition metals.
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