title: From N-alkylimidazole ligands at a rhenium center: ring opening or formation of NHC complexes.
abstract: Cationic rhenium tricarbonyl complexes with three N-alkylimidazole ligands undergo deprotonation of the central CH group upon reaction with 1 equiv of KN(SiMe3)2. For the tris(N-methylimidazole) complex, the metal fragment shifts from N to C, leaving an NHC complex with a nonsubstituted N atom. For compounds with at least one N-mesitylimidazole ligand, the intramolecular attack of the deprotonated carbon onto the central carbon of an N-mesitylimidazole ligand results in ring opening of the latter.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Orgánica e Inorgánica-IUQOEM, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Oviedo-CSIC, 33006 Oviedo, Spain.
authors.forename: Miguel A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Huertos
authors.forename: Julio
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.forename: Lucía
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Riera
authors.forename: Amador
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Menéndez-Velázquez