title: Sensing of aqueous fluoride anions by cationic stibine-palladium complexes.
abstract: Turn on the lantern! The stibine donor ligand of a cationic palladium complex acts as a Lewis acid and reacts with a fluoride anion to afford the corresponding fluorostiboranyl-palladium species (see scheme). Bindung of the fluoride anion to the antimony center induces a change in denticity of the triphosphine unit and leads to a bright-orange trigonal-bipyramidal d(8) lantern complex.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
authors: Casey R
authors: CR
authors: Wade
authors: Iou-Sheng
authors: IS
authors: Ke
authors: François P
authors: FP
authors: Gabbaï