A metal nitrosyl complex contains a coordinated nitric-oxide group, conventionally written M–NO. The metal–nitrogen–oxygen arrangement may be approximately linear or bent, and changes in geometry correlate with different bonding and reactivity.
Assigning every nitrosyl a single fixed formal charge can obscure the delocalized electronic structure. A useful counting approach groups the metal and nitrosyl together and counts the relevant electrons of that fragment. Geometry, spectroscopy and electron count then constrain one another. The original 1974 treatment explicitly relates these structural alternatives to chemical reactions.[ref]

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