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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Inorg Chem. 2009 Jun 15;48(12):5106–5116. doi: 10.1021/ic802440h

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Plot of log(Keq) vs. pKa (MeCN) for different ligands L. As discussed above, PPh3 and 2-picoline fall from the trend due to steric congestion in PPh3 and 2-picoline (Table 5). The deviation of CNtBu may be attributable to π-backbonding (see below).