Unsaturated dinickel-molybdenum clusters with N-heterocyclic carbene ligands.
The first examples of mixed metal trinuclear clusters carrying N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands were isolated from reactions of the complexes [Ni(NHC)ClCp] [NHC = bis-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)- or bis-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-imidazol-2-ylidene] with [Mo(CO)(3)Cp](-); the unsaturated 46-electron clusters have triangular MoNi(2) cores and the reaction pathway activates usually inert Ni-Cp and Ni-NHC bonds.
Milosevic
Sandra
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Laboratoire de Chimie Organométallique Appliquée, UMR CNRS 7509, ECPM, Université Louis Pasteur, 25 Rue Becquerel, 67087, Strasbourg, France.
Brenner
Eric
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Ritleng
Vincent
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Chetcuti
Michael J
MJ