Unusual fragmentation of CH2Cl2 by an Ir(III) centre bonded to a doubly metalated TpMs Ligand (TpMs = hydrotris(3-mesitylpyrazol-1-yl)borate)

Jorge A. López; Kurt Mereiter; Margarita Paneque; Manuel L. Poveda; Oracio Serrano; Swiatoslaw Trofimenko; Ernesto Carmona

doi:10.1039/B608293A

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Unusual fragmentation of CH₂Cl₂ by an Ir(iii) centre bonded to a doubly metalated Tp^MsLigand (Tp^Ms = hydrotris(3-mesitylpyrazol-1-yl)borate)†‡

Jorge A. López,^a Kurt Mereiter,^b Margarita Paneque,^c Manuel L. Poveda,^c Oracio Serrano,^ac Swiatoslaw Trofimenko^d and Ernesto Carmona*^c

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^a Universidad de Guanajuato, Instituto de, Investigaciones Científicas, Cerro de la Venada s/n, Col. Pueblito de Rocha, Guanajuato, México

^b Department of Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/164SC, Austria

^c Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, Depto. de Q. Inorgánica, Univ. de Sevilla, CSIC, Américo Vespucio s/n, Isla de la Cartuja, Spain
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^d Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, USA

Abstract

The Ir(III) compound Tp^Ms″Ir(N₂), that contains a pentadentate, doubly metalated 3-mesityl substituted tris(pyrazolyl)borate ligand, induces the cleavage of C–H and C–Cl bonds of CH₂Cl₂ to yield a highly electrophilic chlorocarbene Ir [double bond, length as m-dash] C(H)Cl complex.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B608293A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 12 Jun 2006
Accepted: 13 Jul 2006
First published: 04 Aug 2006

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Chem. Commun., 2006, 3921-3923

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Unusual fragmentation of CH₂Cl₂ by an Ir(III) centre bonded to a doubly metalated Tp^Ms Ligand (Tp^Ms = hydrotris(3-mesitylpyrazol-1-yl)borate)

J. A. López, K. Mereiter, M. Paneque, M. L. Poveda, O. Serrano, S. Trofimenko and E. Carmona, Chem. Commun., 2006, 3921 DOI: 10.1039/B608293A

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