Hi Leonardo, Arrow pushing is more difficult with transition metals because they contain electrons in d-orbitals, which are more diffuse than s and p orbitals. It is hard to localize d-electrons and place them on a specific atom in a metal complex, so they are typically not represented using arrows or lone pairs. This is simply the convention -- you can definitely imagine using arrows to denote these types of reactions!
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Nice explanation. All understood. Thank you.
Excellent explaination sir, Indian CSIR net( exam) organic parts is very difficult.
Nice video, I would like to ask, why does alkene always need a electron withdrawing group come along with to activate this reaction?
Thanks for video. In my opinion you missed one important thing, syn-addition/elimination
Well explained
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Why does the arrow-pushing notation for electrons fall apart when dealing with transition metals?
Hi Leonardo,
Arrow pushing is more difficult with transition metals because they contain electrons in d-orbitals, which are more diffuse than s and p orbitals. It is hard to localize d-electrons and place them on a specific atom in a metal complex, so they are typically not represented using arrows or lone pairs.
This is simply the convention -- you can definitely imagine using arrows to denote these types of reactions!
Great video, very helpful for understanding my grad student's research
Cool, I'm glad it helped!
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