title: Alkali-metal bis(aryl)formamidinates: a study of coordinative versatility.
abstract: The development of alkali-metal amidinate reagents, in particular formamidinates, has proceeded hand-in-hand with fundamental advances in transition-metal bonding, e.g. metal-metal bonding, and the progressive departure from cyclopentadienyl support ligands in early transition-metal catalysis. This highly personalised account highlights the coordinative versatility of one alkali-metal amidinate subclass; the bis(aryl)formamidinates. These compounds have proven invaluable during transition-metal studies but were considered unworthy of investigation in their own right prior to our work.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, Monash University, Victoria, 3800, Australia. peter.junk@sci.monash.edu.au
authors.forename: Peter C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Junk
authors.forename: Marcus L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Cole