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0000-0002-7296-1471
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Durham University
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-09-2018
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-06242-W
Abstract: Carbon monoxide is a key C 1 feedstock for the industrial production of hydrocarbons, where it is used to make millions of tonnes of chemicals, fuels, and solvents per annum. Many transition metal complexes can coordinate CO, but the formation of new C−C bonds in well-defined compounds from the scission and subsequent coupling of two or more CO moieties at a transition metal centre remains a challenge. Herein, we report the use of low-coordinate iron(II) complexes for the selective scission and homologation of CO affording unusual squaraines and iron carboxylates at ambient temperature and pressure. A modification of the ligand framework allows for the isolation and structural characterisation of a proposed metallacyclic Fe(II) carbene intermediate. These results indicate that, with the appropriate choice of supporting ligands, it is possible to cleave and homologate carbon monoxide under mild conditions using an abundant and environmentally benign low-coordinate, first row transition metal.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1039/C7CY02086D
Abstract: Low-coordinate m -terphenyl complexes are precatalysts for dehydrocoupling of dimethylamine–borane, where small changes in coordination environment effect significant mechanistic differences.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1039/C4DT00647J
Abstract: The analysis of three series of two-coordinate Group 12 bis-terphenyl complexes highlights how subtle changes to ligand properties, particularly sterics, and, to a smaller extent, electronics have a large effect on the solid state structures adopted.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC46384B
Abstract: The reaction between sterically demanding m-terphenyl lithiate complexes and cadmium dihalides yields unusual cubanes where changes in ligand bulk afford different formulations, in particular a rare heterodicubane structure.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.1039/C6CC07243G
Abstract: Isocyanurates can be synthesised through the cyclotrimerisation of primary isocyanates catalysed by low-coordinate manganese( ii ) and iron( ii ) m -terphenyl complexes under mild conditions.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1039/D2DT03531F
Abstract: Demonstration that m -terphenyls are tuneable and versatile ligands capable of inducing highly axial ligand fields upon a low-coordinate metal centre.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC03559A
Abstract: Synthesis of a new transition metal-group 13 cluster from a low-coordinate diaryl and “GaI”, demonstrates entry into new cluster compounds.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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