<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sinclair, Matthew J.G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Roig, Nil</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tsoureas, Nikolaos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alonso, Mercedes</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chaplin, Adrian B.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Synthesis and Characterisation of {PdNO}10 Pincer Complexes</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Electronic structure</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Energy decomposition Analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nitrosyl ligands</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Palladium</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pincer ligands</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">John Wiley and Sons Inc</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The synthesis and characterisation of two square planar {PdNO}10 pincer complexes of the form [Pd(pincer)(NO)]+ (pincer = 2,6-(tBu2PCH2)2C5H3N, 1; 2,6-(tBu2PO)2C5H3N, 2) are reported. These complexes are readily isolated by phosphine substitution of T-shaped [Pd(PtBu3)2(NO)]+ 3 in THF and the bent nitrosyl coordination mode observed in 3 is retained, as evidenced by X-ray diffraction (∠PdNO ∼ 120°), IR spectroscopy and analysis of isotopically enriched samples by 15N NMR spectroscopy. Effective oxidation states of Pd0/NO+ are calculated for 1–3 and nitrosyl coordination is principally attributed to metal-centred σ-bonding, with supplementary π-backbonding. Computational analysis, however, indicates that the Pd−NO bonds in 1 and 2 have greater PdI/NO• character and σ-bonding is more prominent than in 3. These differences in bonding are manifested experimentally in more red-shifted nitrosyl stretching frequencies and the propensity of 1 and 2 to react with dichloromethane to afford palladium(II) chloride derivatives.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>