“…Secondly, the model reaction for imine metathesis is investigated in terms of key intermediates and transition structures, and includes an assessment of substituent effects on the rate-determining barrier and on d( Geometries and chemical shifts: Optimized geometries for the test set 1 ± 11, which comprises both inorganic and organometallic species, are displayed in Figure 1 [30±32] The compounds are served in the solid state for 1, 5, 6, and 11 are included for comparison, [30] as are structural data for [Mo 2 (OCH 2 CMe 3 ) 6 ] [31] for which 10 serves as model, as well as the gas-phase electron-diffraction (GED) results for 7, [32] the only known gas-phase structure in this set. [33] As noted before for these or for similar compounds, [6] bond lengths between the transition metal and the main-group elements tend to be overestimated by up to several pm at the DFT level employedÐ even more so for the inorganic dianions than for the organometallic species.…”