Symmetry control of chemical reactions: Applications to the Berry pseudorotation of five-coordinate transition metal complexes

摘要

A symmetry analysis of the Berry pseudorotation of trigonal bipyramidal transition metal complexes is presented. Predictions are made regarding which electronic configurations are allowed to undergo pseudorotation and which configurations are symmetry forbidden. A comparison to reported fluxional five-coordinate complexes shows that the predictions are consistent with experimental observations. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.