Cobalt-carbene complex with single-bond character: intermediate for the cobalt complex-catalyzed cyclopropanation.
It is generally considered that metal-carbene carbon bonds in carbene complexes for cyclopropanation should be double-bonded; however, the theoretical and FT-IR analyses revealed that the cobalt-carbene carbon bond of the 3-oxobutylideneaminato or the salen-cobalt-carbene complexes was characterized as a single bond.
Ikeno
Taketo
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Department of Chemistry, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan.
Iwakura
Izumi
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Yamada
Tohru
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