title: Reduction of benzophenone and 9(10H)-anthracenone with the magnesium complex [(2,6-iPr2C6H3-bian)Mg(thf)3].
abstract: The reduction of benzophenone with the magnesium complex [(2,6-iPr(2)C(6)H(3)-bian)Mg(thf)(3)] (1), containing the 1,2-bis[(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imino]acenaphthene dianion, affords the pinacolato complex [(2,6-iPr(2)C(6)H(3)-bian)Mg(thf)](2)[micro-O(2)C(2)Ph(4)].(C(6)H(6))(4) (2). The reaction of 1 with 9(10H)-anthracenone yields the 9-anthracenolato complex [(2,6-iPr(2)C(6)H(3)-bian)Mg(OC(14)H(9))(thf)(2)] (3). Complexes 2 and 3 were characterized by elemental analyses, UV/Vis, IR, and ESR spectroscopy, as well as by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Complex 2 dissociates in solution with splitting of the bridging pinacolato unit, forming the biradical diimino/ketyl complex [(2,6-iPr(2)C(6)H(3)-bian)Mg(thf)(OCPh(2))].
authors.affiliation: G. A. Razuvaev Institute of Organometallic Chemistry, of Russian Academy of Sciences, Tropinina 49, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod GSP-445, Russia. igorfed@imoc.sinn.ru
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authors.lastname: Fedushkin
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