New insights into the reaction of t-butylhydroperoxide with dichloro-and dimethyl (dioxo) molybdenum (VI)

M Groarke, IS Gonçalves, WA Herrmann…

Index: Groarke, Michelle; Goncalves, Isabel S.; Herrmann, Wolfgang A.; Kuehn, Fritz E. Journal of Organometalic Chemistry, 2002 , vol. 649, # 1 p. 108 - 112

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Abstract

Lewis-base adducts of dichlorodioxomolybdenum (VI) and dimethyldioxomolybdenum (VI) react in an equilibrium reaction with excess t-butylhydroperoxide (TBHP) under the formation of a seven-coordinated molybdenum (VI) complexes displaying a η1-alkylperoxo- ligand. HCl/CH4 elimination or the protonation of the Lewis-base ligand is not observed, the TBHP hydrogen atom is instead transferred to one of the terminal oxo ligands under the ...