Issue 14, 2003
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Chemical Communications

An N-heterocyclic carbene as a bidentate hemilabile ligand: a synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study†

Vladimir K. Dioumaev,a   David J. Szalda,‡a   Jonathan Hanson,a   James A. Franzb  and  R. Morris Bullock*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
E-mail: bullock@bnl.gov

b Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA

Abstract

The N-heterocyclic carbene ligand IMes was shown by synchrotron crystallography and DFT computations to adopt a hemilabile bidentate coordination mode in CpM(CO)2(IMes)+B(C6F5)4− (M = Mo, W), with a C[double bond, length as m-dash]C bond of one mesityl weakly coordinated to the metal.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B303762B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Apr 2003
Accepted
16 May 2003
First published
11 Jun 2003

Chem. Commun., 2003, 1670-1671

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An N-heterocyclic carbene as a bidentate hemilabile ligand: a synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study

V. K. Dioumaev, D. J. Szalda, J. Hanson, J. A. Franz and R. Morris Bullock, Chem. Commun., 2003, 1670 DOI: 10.1039/B303762B

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