The first stable scandocene: synthesis and characterisation of bis(η-2,4,5-tri-tert-butyl-1,3-diphosphacyclopentadienyl)scandium(II)

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Polly L. Arnold, F. Geoffrey N. Cloke and John F. Nixon


Abstract

The first isolable example of a molecular scandium(II) complex, the dark purple scandocene [Sc(η5-P2C3But3)] 1, has been isolated from the cocondensation of scandium vapour with tert-butylphosphaalkyne, ButCP at 77 K.


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