Agostic versus Hypervalent Si-H Interactions in Half-sandwich Complexes of Nb and Ta

A. A. Merkulov, P. Mountford, G. I. Nikonov

Abstracts of the 1st European Silicon Days, 6-7 September 2001, Munich, Germany, P72

ABSTRACT. Design of a new coordination environment for the occurrence of a hypervalent Si-H bond is presented. The conditions for the transformation of the hypervalent Si-H bond into agostic Si-H bond are discussed.

Laboratory of Coordination Organometallic Compounds