Carbon dioxide co-ordination chemistry: preparation and X-ray crystal structure of the methoxycarbonyl complex [IrCl(CO2Me)-(Me2PCH2CH2PMe2)2]FSO from a CO adduct
Abstract
[IrCl(CO2Me)(dmpe)2]FSO3(dmpe = Me2PCH2-CH2PMe2) is made by the reaction of Ir(dmpe)2Cl·CO2 with MeFSO3 and its structure has been determined by X-ray crystallography; this is the first transformation of a well defined CO2 ligand into an organic species.