Inorganic Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
5 years ago

Consequence of Ligand Bite Angle on Bismuth Lewis Acidity

Consequence of Ligand Bite Angle on Bismuth Lewis Acidity
Ajay Venugopal, Sandeep Kumar, Alex P. Andrews, Eluvathingal D. Jemmis, Ramkumar Kannan
We present here a new concept of controlling the Lewis acidity at bismuth by tuning the ligand bite angle, utilizing the inferences obtained from electronic structure studies. Decreasing the ligand bite angle in the cationic bismuth complexes leads to a marked decrease in energy of the acceptor orbital, and this increases the Lewis acidity at bismuth, thus demonstrating that the ligand bite angle is an important parameter in main-group chemistry.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01243

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01243

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