Synthesis, crystal and molecular structure of [Sn(eta 4-P2C2But2)]: the first non transition metal 1,3-diphosphacyclobutadienyl compound.
Treatment of [Zr(eta 5-C5H5)2(PCBut)2] with SnCl2 led to the novel monomeric (1,3-diphosphacyclobutadienyl)tin(II) half sandwich complex [Sn(eta 4-P2C2But2)] which has been characterised by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy and in the solid state by a single crystal X-ray diffraction study.
School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK BN1 9QJ. m.d.francis@sussex.ac.uk
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