A wide range of transition metal imido (TMI) complexes is studied using ab initio molecular orbital (MO) calculations. The main computational point of interest is the further testing of effective core potentials (ECPs) and valence basis sets to allow for the accurate calculation of properties for reasonably sized transition metal complexes. On the chemical side, several results from the study a...

Chapter 1 Reaction of W(CCMe 3)Cl 3(dme) with one equivalent of (3,5-Me 2C6H3NCH 2CH 2)3N)Li3 affords yellow, crystalline W(CCMe 3)(N3N) in good yield. The reactivity of this new alkylidyne complex towards terminal alkynes was investigated. Two other new tungsten alkylidynes, W(CCMe 3)(pyr) 3 (pyr = 2,5-dimethylpyrrolide) and W(CCMe3)(Ph 2N)3 were prepared by the addition of three equivalents o...

Attention-directing cues presented at fixation evoke several lateralized event-related potential (ERP) components prior to the onset of visual targets. These components have been associated with the control of visuo-spatial attention, but the neuro-cognitive operations and neural generators of the components are still largely unknown. Here, we isolated cue-elicited ERP activity in different way...