Abstract
ETS–NOCV charge and bond energy analyses have been carried out for a broad range of transition-metal carbonyl complexes L–[M], comprising different ligand classes, transition metals, and coordination geometries. The resulting electronic redistributions are visually assigned to σ donation, π backbonding, and related interactions. We propose a Hirshfeld partitioning of these electronic redistributions to afford the corresponding charge flow contributions Δqσ, Δqπ, etc. Taken together, a detailed picture of the dative bonding arises, in terms of both energetics and the extent of σ-electron donation and π-electron backbonding. The charge flows Δqσ and Δqπ appropriately quantify trends in the ligand σ-donor and π-acceptor abilities and are transferable across the transition-metal complexes studied and thus promise to be suitable descriptors for ligand knowledge bases. As a case in point, the TEP is well reproduced by the calculated νCO(A1) frequencies and is 3 times more strongly affected by Δqσ than by Δqπ, w...
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