Structure of the decamethyl titanocene cation, a metallocene with two agostic C-H bonds, and its interaction with fluorocarbons

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 124, Issue 44, 2002, Pages 12956-12957

  Bouwkamp, Marco W ^a   De Wolf, Jeanette ^a   Del Hierro Morales, Isabel ^a   Gercama, Jeroen ^a   Meetsma, Auke ^a   Troyanov, Sergei I ^b   Hessen, Bart ^a   Teuben, Jan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROBENZENE; FLUOROCARBON; TITANOCENE;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL BOND; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037032246     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja027617w     Document Type: Article

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