Archive for July 18th, 2013

The butterfly effect in chemistry: bimodal bond angles.

Thursday, July 18th, 2013

This potential example of a molecule on the edge of chaos was suggested to me by a student (thanks Stephen!), originating from an inorganic tutorial. It represents a class of Mo-complex ligated by two dithiocarbamate ligands and two aryl nitrene ligands (Ar-N:).Mo

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