Coordinating Tectons: Bipyridyl Terminated Allenylidene Complexes

Cifuentes, Marie; Koutsantonis, George; Lengkeek, N A; Petrie, Simon; Sanford, V A; Schauer, P A; Skelton, Brian; Stranger, Robert; White, Allan; Humphrey, Mark

Coordinating Tectons: Bipyridyl Terminated Allenylidene Complexes

Date

2008

Authors

Cifuentes, Marie

Koutsantonis, George

Lengkeek, N A

Petrie, Simon

Sanford, V A

Schauer, P A

Skelton, Brian

Stranger, Robert

White, Allan

Humphrey, Mark

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Abstract

A series of complexes with π-conjugated carbon chains terminated by bipyridyl moieties has been prepared. These allenylidene complexes were derived from 9-hydroxy-9-ethynyl-4,5-diazafluorene, the preparation of which is reported; the new allenylidene com