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Keywords:

  • carbene ligands;
  • density functional calculations;
  • lactams;
  • metallocenes;
  • photochemistry
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Ferrocene or ruthenocene? Computational (DFT) methods predicted a metal-dependent photochemistry for metallocenyl–chromium(0)–carbene complexes (see scheme). These theoretical predictions are fully confirmed by the experimental results.