Evidence for the interaction of trimethylalane with the oxygen atom of a terminal metal carbonyl group
Abstract
The presence of a CO stretching frequency at 1665 cm–1 in the i.r. spectrum of the 1 : 1 complex formed between trimethylalane and triphenylphosphoniumcyclopentadienylidemolybdenum tricarbonyl suggests co-ordinate covalent bonding between aluminium and the oxygen atom of one of the terminal carbonyl groups.