title: Remarkable room-temperature insertion of carbon monoxide into an aluminum-carbon bond of tri-tert-butylaluminum.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, MS 602, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA. mmason5@uoft02.utoledo.edu
authors.forename: Mark R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Mason
authors.forename: Bingxu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kirschbaum