Dichloro(1,2-dimethoxyethane)bis(tosylimido)molybdenum(VI), a versatile nitrene transfer reagent.
In the title compound, [Mo(C7H7NO2S)2Cl2(C4H10O2)], the Mo-Cl bond lengths are 2.3730 (8) and 2.3842 (8) A, the former being the shortest within the series of analogous structurally characterized bis(imido) Mo complexes. This fact clearly explains the very strong Lewis acidity of the metal centre in this complex and, as a result, its synthetic versatility as a nitrene transfer reagent towards different phosphanes and strained cycloolefins.
Rufanov
Konstantin A
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Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2, D-12489 Berlin, Germany. k_rufanov@gmx.de
Ziemer
Burkhard
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