Hf–phosphinoamide cation complexes behave as metal-based frustrated Lewis pairs and bind one or two equivalent of CO2 and in as well can activate CO2 in a bimetallic fashion to give a pseudo-tetrahedral P2CO2 fragment linking two Hf centres.
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Activation of CO2 by phosphinoamide hafnium complexes
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Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 2610-2612
DOI: 10.1039/C3CC38286A
Received 17 Nov 2012, Accepted 27 Jan 2013
First published online 05 Feb 2013
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