Mononuclear and Terminal Zirconium and Hafnium Methylidenes1. Issue 41 (11th August 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kamitani, Masahiro; Pinter, Balazs; Chen, Chun‐Hsing; Pink, Maren; Mindiola, Daniel J.
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 53:Issue 41(2014)
• Page Start: 10913
• Page End: 10915
• Publication Date: 2014-08-11
• Subjects: Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201405042
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>The dimethyl aryloxide complexes [(PNP)M(CH₃)₂(OAr)] (M=Zr or Hf; PNP⁻=N[2‐P(CHMe₂)₂‐4‐methylphenyl]₂); Ar=2, 6‐<italic>i</italic>Pr₂C₆H₃), which were readily prepared from [(PNP)M(CH₃)₃] by alcoholysis with HOAr, undergo photolytically induced α‐hydrogen abstraction to cleanly produce complexes [(PNP)M=CH₂(OAr)] with terminal methylidene ligands. These unique systems have been fully characterized, including the determination of a solid‐state structure in the case of M=Zr.</p> </abstract>