Unexpected B/Al Transelementation within a Rh Pincer Complex. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report the synthesis of PAlP and PBP pincer complexes of Rh with a central bis(N-pyrrolyl)aluminyl or -boryl unit. Complex (PAlpyP)Rh(CO)2 possesses an aluminyl site stabilized by coordination of pyridine, resulting in a four-coordinate Al. Attempts to access the three-coordinate aluminyl by abstraction of pyridine with BF3Et2O unexpectedly led to a B/Al metathesis with the preservation of the pincer structure in the product (PBP)Rh(CO)2. Abstraction of pyridine was carried out using B(C6F5)3, but the desired (PAlP)Rh(CO)2 underwent dimerization via isocarbonyl bridging.

published proceedings

  • J Am Chem Soc

altmetric score

  • 4.7

author list (cited authors)

  • Lai, Q., Bhuvanesh, N., & Ozerov, O. V.

citation count

  • 13

publication date

  • January 2020