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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 11, Issue 20, Pages 6095-6099Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.200500481
Keywords
bifunctional catalysis; carbene ligands; heterometallic complexes; O ligands; uranium
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/S63458/01] Funding Source: researchfish
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The syntheses of two tetravalent uranium alkoxide-carbene complexes are reported, [UIL3], and [UL4] where L=OCMe2CH2[1-C(NCHCHNiPr)]. The latter shows dynamic behaviour of the alkoxycarbene ligands in solution at room temperature, and the crystal structure of [UL4] shows that one carbene group remains uncoordinated. The unbound N-hetero-cyclic carbene group is trapped by a range of reagents such as 16-valence-electron metal carbonyl fragments and BH3 moieties, forming, for example, [UL4(mu-L)W(CO)(5)], [UL2(mu-L)(2)Mo(CO)4], and [ULn(L-BH3)(4-n)] (n=1-4), demonstrating the potential for these hemilabile electropositive metal-carbene complexes to participate in the bifunctional activation of small molecules.
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