Anomalous facile carbon–nitrogen bond cleavage in novel diastereoisomers of the ethylenediaminetetra-3-propionatochromate(III) ion
Abstract
Diastereoisomers of three ethylenediaminetetra-3-propionatochromate(III) ions and the (S)-propane-1,2-diamine analogues, have been synthesized and characterized by 2H n.m.r. and circular dichroism (c.d.) spectroscopy; a facile C–N bond cleavage occurs during decomposition on heating at 60 °C, and this process was followed by spectroscopy.