Table 3.
DFT-derived bond lengths of the vinyl fragments of the S = 0 and S = 1 metallacycles. Bond lengths are reported in Å.
| RKS S = 0 | BS(3,1)// BS(3,1) |
UKS S = 1 |
UKS S = 2 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C(1)-C(2) | 1.39 | 1.41 | 1.42 | 1.42 |
| C(2)-C(3) | 1.41 | 1.40 | 1.41 | 1.39 |
| Fe-C(1) | 2.17 | 2.12 | 2.12 | 2.13 |
| Fe-C(2) | 2.11 | 2.13 | 2.11 | 2.18 |
| Fe-C(3) | 2.16 | 2.27 | 2.25 | 2.37 |