Remarkable room-temperature insertion of carbon monoxide into an aluminum-carbon bond of tri-tert-butylaluminum.
Room-temperature reaction of carbon monoxide with tri-tert-butylaluminum at atmospheric pressure yields the dimeric tert-butylacyl complex [tBu2AlC(O)tBu]2 (1). This unprecedented CO insertion into an aluminum-carbon bond is apparently made possible by the three-coordinate aluminum center in the tri-tert-butylaluminum starting material.
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Mark R
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Department of Chemistry, MS 602, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA. mmason5@uoft02.utoledo.edu
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Kirschbaum
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