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October 2014 issue

Cover illustration: The molecular structures of the molybdenum(II) cyclopentadienyl complexes [Mo(C5H5)(COCH3)P(CH3)2(C6H5)(CO)2], (1), and [Mo(C5H5)(COCH3)P(C2H5)(C6H5)2)(CO)2], (2), exhibit a four-legged piano-stool geometry with trans-disposed carbonyl ligands. The steric demands of the different phosphine ligands in (1) and (2) have a minor effect on bond lengths and angles within the complex molecule whereas the crystal packing in both structures is markedly different, with the acetyl oxygen atom playing a crucial role as an acceptor of non-classical C---H...O hydrogen bonds. See: Whited, Hofmeister, Hodges, Jensen, Keyes, Ngamnithiporn & Janzen [Acta Cryst. (2014). E70, 216-220].
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