Research Article

A DFT Study of Structural and Bonding Properties of Complexes Obtained from First-Row Transition Metal Chelation by 3-Alkyl-4-phenylacetylamino-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-5-one and Its Derivatives

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Second perturbative interaction energies (in kJmolāˆ’1) between the first-row transition metals and lone pair electron ligand atoms (oxygen atom O3 and oxygen atom O2) for each complex: energies for neutral ligands (a) and energies for deprotonated ligands (b).
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