The Best of Both Worlds: Combining the Power of MICs and WCAs To Generate Stable and Crystalline CrI -Tetracarbonyl Complexes with π-Accepting Ligands

Tobias Bens; Robert R M Walter; Julia Beerhues; Manuel Schmitt; Ingo Krossing; Biprajit Sarkar

doi:10.1002/chem.202302317

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining the Power of MICs and WCAs To Generate Stable and Crystalline Cr^I -Tetracarbonyl Complexes with π-Accepting Ligands

Chemistry. 2023 Sep 6;29(50):e202302317. doi: 10.1002/chem.202302317. Epub 2023 Aug 8.

Authors

Tobias Bens¹, Robert R M Walter¹, Julia Beerhues^{1

2}, Manuel Schmitt³, Ingo Krossing³, Biprajit Sarkar¹

Affiliations

¹ Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany.
² Current address: Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007, Tarragona, Spain.
³ Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie und Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Universität Freiburg, Albertstr. 21, 79104, Freiburg, Germany.

PMID: 37675622
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202302317

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue are Biprajit Sarkar and co-workers at the University of Stuttgart and University of Freiburg. In the image, the solar flare represents the non-innocence (fluorine-specific interactions) of the counterion, and the black hole at the metal center illustrates the oxidation/electron deficiency of the Cr-center, while the electron "gets lost" in the space (oxidation agent). Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202301205.