Binary role of an ylide in formation of a terminal methylidene complex of niobium.
The first structurally characterized niobium(v) complex possessing a terminal methylidene ligand is reported in high yield from the reaction of [(Ar'O)2Nb(CH3)2Cl] (Ar' = (2,6-CHPh2)2-4-tBu-C6H2) and two equivalents of H2CPPh3.
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. mindiola@sas.upenn.edu.
Keith
K
Searles
Karlijn
K
Keijzer
Chun-Hsing
CH
Chen
Mu-Hyun
MH
Baik
Daniel J
DJ
Mindiola