Dalton Transactions (Print Edition) 2015-08-28

Syntheses, structural characterisation and electronic structures of some simple acyclic amino carbene complexes.

Samantha G Eaves, Dmitry S Yufit, Brian W Skelton, Judith A K Howard, Paul J Low

Index: Dalton Trans. 44 , 14341-8, (2015)

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Abstract

Reactions of the vinylidene complexes [M([double bond, length as m-dash]C[double bond, length as m-dash]CH2)(PP)Cp']PF6 with NH3 readily afford the acyclic amino carbene complexes [M{C(Me)NH2}(PP)Cp']PF6 [M(PP)Cp' = Fe(dppe)Cp, Ru(dppe)Cp, Ru(PPh3)2Cp, Ru(dppe)Cp*]. Crystallographic, spectroscopic and computational data support a description of these complexes in terms of a M-{C(Me)[double bond, length as m-dash]N(+)H2} mesomeric form, and simple σ-coordination of the singlet acyclic amino carbene.