Insertion Reactions of Nitriles in Cationic Alkylbis(cyclopentadienyl)titanium Complexes: The Facile Synthesis of Azaalkenylidene Titanium Complexes and the Crystal and Molecular Structure of [(Indenyl)2Ti(NCMePh)(NCPh)]BPh4

Organometallics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 1148-1154

  Bochmann, Manfred ^a   Wilson, Ladislav M ^a   Hursthouse, Michael B ^b   Motevalli, Majid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS - STRUCTURE; ETHYLENE - POLYMERIZATION; ORGANOMETALLICS; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS - SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

AZAALKENYLIDENE; ELECTRONEUTRAL COMPLEXES; MIGRATORY INSERTION; TRIMETHYLSILYL CYANIDE; ZIEGLER-NATTA CATALYSTS;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0024014302     PISSN: 02767333     EISSN: 15206041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/om00095a020     Document Type: Article

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