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The large, temperature-dependent scalar coupling constants between the metal-bonded hydrogen atoms in trihydrido complexes are caused by a mutual quantum exchange between the two identical forms, that is, by a coherent tunneling process. In this report the experimental findings are explained by the reaction pathway sketched below, in which a metastable dihydrogen complex is formed.
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Limbach et al. (1992) studied this question.
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