Issue 17, 2015
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Chemical Communications

Niobium-nitrides derived from nitrogen splitting†

Keith Searles,a   Patrick J. Carroll,a   Chun-Hsing Chen,b   Maren Pinkb  and  Daniel J. Mindiola*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

b Department of Chemistry and the Molecular Structure Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47505, USA

Abstract

The easy-to-prepare Nb(V) aryloxide complex [(ArO)2Nb(μ-Cl)Cl2]2 (OAr = 2,6-bis(diphenylmethyl)-4-tert-butylphenoxide) is a precursor to both Nb(IV), [trans-(ArO)2NbCl2(THF)2], and Nb(III), K3[(ArO)4Nb2(μ-Cl)3Cl2], molecules. The Nb(IV) and (V) complexes readily split atmospheric nitrogen at room temperature and 1 atmosphere, under reducing conditions, to produce the low-coordinate nitride dimer [(ArO)2Nb(μ-N)]2 and its radical anion, K[(ArO)2Nb(μ-N)]2.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC09563D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Nov 2014
Accepted
06 Jan 2015
First published
09 Jan 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 3526-3528

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Niobium-nitrides derived from nitrogen splitting

K. Searles, P. J. Carroll, C. Chen, M. Pink and D. J. Mindiola, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 3526 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC09563D

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