Issue 30, 2015
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Dalton Transactions

Rhodium(ii) dimers without metal–metal bonds†

Di Zhu,*a   Arzoo Z. Sharma,b   Christopher R. Wiebec  and  Peter H. M. Budzelaarb  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Science, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, P.R. China
E-mail: dizhu@cup.edu.cn

b Department of Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

c Department of Chemistry, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Canada

Abstract

Oxidation of (MeBDI)Rh(cyclooctene) (MeBDI = [2,6-Me2C6H3NCMe]2CH) with Br2 or I2 produces paramagnetic halide-bridged RhII dimers [(MeBDI)Rh]2(μ-X)2 without a direct Rh–Rh bond. Steric factors are proposed to play a key role in preventing the formation of Rh–Rh bonded alternative structures.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5DT02218E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Jun 2015
Accepted
26 Jun 2015
First published
26 Jun 2015

Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 13460-13463

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Rhodium(II) dimers without metal–metal bonds

D. Zhu, A. Z. Sharma, C. R. Wiebe and P. H. M. Budzelaar, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 13460 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT02218E

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