Synthesis of stable monomeric iridium(0) and iridium(–1) complexes

Abstract

Using the tropp^Ph ligand 1, stable monomeric d⁸-Ir^+I, d⁹-Ir⁰ and d¹⁰-Ir^–I complexes could be isolated and structurally characterized; in all complexes, the metal centre lies within a coordination sphere intermediate between a square plane and a tetrahedron.

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