Evidence for the Existence of Group 3 Terminal Methylidene Complexes
Evidence for the Existence of Group 3 Terminal Methylidene Complexes
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00394
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发表时间:
2017-01-09
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2.8
通讯作者:
Andersen, Richard A.
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作者:
Levine, Daniel S.;Tilley, T. Don;Andersen, Richard A.
Terminal group 3 methylidene complexes are generated by thermolysis of monoanionic PNP-supported scandium and yttrium dialkyl complexes. The reaction mechanism has been probed by deuterium-labeling experiments and DFT calculations. Abstraction of a y-hydrogen from one alkyl group by the other affords a metal-lacyclobutane that undergoes [2 + 2] cycloreversion, analogous to a key step in the olefin metathesis reaction, to generate a methylidene complex and isobutene. The resulting methylidene complex dimerizes in the case of scandium and decomposes to a mixture of products in the case of yttrium.