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A new scheme, which considers the sequential edge cleavage of ligand polyhedra, has been employed to explain the phenomenon of pseudorotation in simple homoleptic coordination complexes. The fluxional behaviour shown by cluster carbonyls, with special reference to Co2(CO)8, Fe3(CO)12, and Co4(CO)12, in the solid state can be explained in terms of small librations involving both the encapsulated metal polyhedron and the carbonyl envelope, and in solution by a combination of the same librational motions and concerted pseudorotation of the carbonyl polyhedron.
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Johnson, B.F.G., Bott, A., Benfield, R.E., Braga, D., Marseglia, E.A., Rodger, A. (1990). Mechanistic Features of Carbonyl Cluster Rearrangement. In: Fackler, J.P. (eds) Metal-Metal Bonds and Clusters in Chemistry and Catalysis. Industry-University Cooperative Chemistry Program Symposia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2492-6_11
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