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DOI: 10.1039/A703031B (Paper) Reference Section for: Chem. Commun., 1997, 1541-1542

The first mononuclear η8-coordinated pentalene complex: synthesis and molecular structure of [Ta{η8-C8H4(SiMe3) 2-1,4}Cl3]

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Qasim A. Abbasali, F. Geoffrey N. Cloke, Peter B. Hitchcock and Stephen C. P. Joseph

Abstract

Treatment of [TaCl2Me3] with Li2(cot″) (cot″ = 1,4-bis(trimethylsilyl)cyclooctatetraene] affords [Ta(η-cot″)Me3], which reacts with [NHPri2Et]Cl in dichloromethane to yield the complex [Ta{η8-C8H4(SiMe3) 2-1,4}Cl3]; X-ray crystallography shows the latter to contain a pentalene ligand bound through all eight carbons to a single tantalum centre.

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