Crystallographic characterisation of binary alkali metal alkoxide-magnesium bis(alkyl) mixtures: differential binding of Na+ and K+ to a common dinuclear diorganomagnesiate.
Relevant to mixtures studied in solution and utilised in styrene polymerisation but hitherto not characterised in the solid, two crystal structures of alkali metal alkoxide-magnesium bis(alkyl) co-complexes have been determined, revealing that in binding to the C2O tripodal face of a common organomagnesiate anion, Na+ prefers O-coordination, whereas K+ prefers C-coordination.
Barnett
Nicholas D R
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Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XL, UK.
Clegg
William
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Kennedy
Alan R
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Mulvey
Robert E
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Weatherstone
Susan
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