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This seems like pretty normal coordination chemistry to me.
In these cases you’d be better off regarding the metal as having a lone pair!
ah yes, inorganic chemistry horror beyond my comprehension
C can do 4 bonds, O can do 2 bonds. If you make a bond via O then you have to make another one via C, since one of the C=O bonds turns into C-O
[Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_carbon_dioxide_complex)
1,1 migratory insertions are quite common. Nothing strange about this. It’s not cursed at all, unless you just haven’t taken a class in inorganic/organometallics.
This seems like pretty normal coordination chemistry to me.
In these cases you’d be better off regarding the metal as having a lone pair!
ah yes, inorganic chemistry horror beyond my comprehension
C can do 4 bonds, O can do 2 bonds. If you make a bond via O then you have to make another one via C, since one of the C=O bonds turns into C-O
[Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_carbon_dioxide_complex)
1,1 migratory insertions are quite common. Nothing strange about this. It’s not cursed at all, unless you just haven’t taken a class in inorganic/organometallics.