Photoinduced hydrogen–deuterium exchange between aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbon systems catalysed by [Mo(η-C5H5)(Me2PCH2CH2PMe2)H3]

Abstract

Photolysis of deuteriobenzene solutions of hydrocarbons such as p-xylene and ethylbenzene, dimethyl ether, or p-methyllanisole, in the presence of [Mo(η-C₅H₅)(Me₂PCH₂CH₂PMe₂)H₃], causes the statistical exchange of all or many of the hydrogens with deuterium; the hydrogens of co-ordinated hydrocarbon ligands of ferrocene and bis-η-toluenetungsten and other organometallic compounds are similarly exchanged.