The preparation and characterisation of new mixed carbonyl nitro complexes of Group 6 metals
Abstract
The series of carbonyl nitro monoanions [M(CO)5(NO2)]–(M = Cr, Mo or W) has been isolated as their N(PPh3)2+ salts from the reaction of the parent hexacarbonyl, M(CO)6, with Me3NO in CH2Cl2 in the presence of [N(PPh3)2][NO2] and has been fully characterised in solution by IR spectroscopy and by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies in the solid for M = Cr or W as the PPh4+ salt.