DOI: 10.1039/A700297A
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Reference Section for: Chem. Commun., 1997, 953-954
New strongly coupled dinuclear metal centres in organometallic s-indacene complexes
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Douglas R. Cary, Catherine G. Webster, Mark J. Drewitt, Stephen Barlow, Jennifer C. Green and Dermot O’Hare
Abstract
The complexes cis-[{Fe(CO)3}2L] and cis-[{Co(CO)2}2L] are prepared from 1,3,5,7-tetra-tert-butyl-s-indacene; in solution, the diiron complexes exhibit very strong electron–electron coupling between iron centres as evidenced by a 810 mV separation between the 0/+ and +/2+ redox waves.
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