Issue 11, 2011
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Dalton Transactions

Nitrogen fixation to cyanide at a molybdenum center†

John J. Curley,a   Anthony F. Cozzolinoa  and  Christopher C. Cummins*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
E-mail: ccummins@mit.edu

Abstract

Facile methoxymethylation of N2-derived nitride NMo(N[tBu]Ar)3 provided the imido cation [MeOCH2NMo(N[tBu]Ar)3]+ as its triflate salt in 88% yield. Treatment of the latter with LiN(SiMe3)2 provided blue methoxyketimide complex MeO(H)CNMo(N[tBu]Ar)3 in 95% yield. Conversion of the latter to the terminal cyanide complex NCMo(N[tBu]Ar)3, which was the subject of a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study, was accomplished in 51% yield upon treatment with a combination of SnCl2 and Me2NSiMe3.

Graphical abstract: Nitrogen fixation to cyanide at a molybdenum center

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0DT01326A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Oct 2010
Accepted
23 Dec 2010
First published
04 Feb 2011

Dalton Trans., 2011,40, 2429-2432

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Nitrogen fixation to cyanide at a molybdenum center

J. J. Curley, A. F. Cozzolino and C. C. Cummins, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 2429 DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01326A

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