Regio- and stereo-specific electroreduction of cationic acylcyclopentadienylareneiron complexes
Abstract
Activation of a carbonyl group in cationic organometallic substrates such as the acylcyclopentadienylareneiron complexes(I), (V), and (VII) renders its electrochemical reduction easy and stereospecific, providing a route to the primary and secondary cationic alcohols (II) and (VI) or to the dinuclear dicationic pinacols (III).