Mechanochemical synthesis of iron aluminyl complexes

Abstract

A series of iron aluminyl complexes have been synthesised in good crystalline yields from reactions between bulky diamido aluminium iodide complexes and K[Fe(CO)₂Cp] in the solid state. The series of metal–metal bonded complexes have been characterised by X-ray crystallography and were investigated using density functional theory to probe the effects of ligand substitution on the Al–Fe bond.