Carboxylic acid dianions (fumarate, maleate and succinate) play a role in coordination chemistry and to some extent also in the biochemistry of body cells. A team has now analyzed their electronic ...

Molecular orbital theory has long underpinned our understanding of how ligands and metal centres interact to form coordination complexes. By constructing delocalised orbitals that span both metal and ...

Density Functional Theory (DFT) has become an indispensable tool for probing the electronic structure, geometry and reactivity of coordination compounds. By solving the electron density as the ...