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SUBMITTER: Davenport MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10498510 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Davenport Michael T MT Kirkland Justin K JK Ess Daniel H DH
Chemical science 20230821 35
Reaction pathway selectivity is generally controlled by competitive transition states. Organometallic reactions are complicated by the possibility that electronic spin state changes rather than transition states can control the relative rates of pathways, which can be modeled as minimum energy crossing points (MECPs). Here we show that in the reaction between bisphosphine Fe and ethylene involving spin state crossover (singlet and triplet spin states) that neither transition states nor MECPs mod ...[more]