%0 Journal Article %T SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEW CARBONYLATED ZIRCONIUM METALLOCENE USING A DICHLORO-ZIRCONOCENE DERIVED FROM PARTIALLY ALKYLATED S-INDACENE %A J.F ARANEDA %A S SALINAS %A D MAC-LEOD-CAREY %A A MU£¿OZ-CASTRO %J Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society %D 2009 %I Sociedad Chilena de Qu¨ªmica %X This work describes the synthesis and characterization of new organometallic species, an unprecedented mononuclear zirconium complex bearing a tetraalkylated s-indacene ligand, and secondly, its respective dicarbonyl complex obtained by reduction with Mg/HgCl2. Theoretical calculations of these two compounds were carried out to gain further understanding of these novel molecular systems. %K s-indaceno %K zirconium dicarbonyl %K zirconocene %K DFT %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-97072009000300014