Talk:Trans-spanning ligand

Removed image
Is this image appropriate? There is a higher resolution version here. Dualus (talk) 05:31, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

What did you hope to depict with this picture? --Rifleman 82 (talk) 16:14, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Just what the caption says. The title of this article. Is the fact that it comes from a music video a problem? Dualus (talk) 03:11, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * The addition of the image was well-intentioned, but it is seems highly tangential at best and trivia more likely. The topic of trans-spanning ligands is challenging enough, so I worry that image from an album cover would be unhelpful for the majority of readers, the group that we serve. It is not a game of collecting odd factoids that we pursue here. Science articles could include all sorts of semi-random double meanings because science usually borrows words rather than invents them.  At least those are my 2 cents. --Smokefoot (talk) 03:40, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Citation for xantphos
I’m on mobile. Can a reference for Xantphos as a trans-spanning ligand be provided? I have seen crystal structures utilizing palladium xantphos and they have all been cis. 2600:100C:B059:88FF:10CC:8321:352A:978D (talk) 23:45, 18 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Xantphos is not a trans-spanning ligand it is a cis-spanning ligand. If this was the case reductive and beta-hydride elimination would be impossible.  This article needs to be updated to reflect this. TheBaseGuy (talk) 14:57, 28 November 2023 (UTC)