Heterodinuclear Bridging Carbido and Phosphoniocarbyne Complexes

Hill, Anthony; Sharma, Manab; Willis, Anthony

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Heterodinuclear Bridging Carbido and Phosphoniocarbyne Complexes

Date

2012

Authors

Hill, Anthony

Sharma, Manab

Willis, Anthony

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Abstract

The sequential treatment of [W(≡CBr)(CO)2{HB(pzMe2)3}] (pz = pyrazol-1-yl) withnBuLi and [NiCl2(PEt3)2] initially affords the bridging carbido complex [WNi(μ-C)(CO)2(PEt3)2Cl{HB(pzMe2)3}], which is however unstable and isomerizes cleanly to the bridgin