Mapping the pathway of heteroborane isomerisation: Two parallel "1,2 → 1,7" isomerisations of a crowded molybdacarborane and the isolation of isomerisation intermediates

Inorganica Chimica Acta

Volumn 359, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3745-3753

  McIntosh, Ruaraidh D ^a   Ellis, David ^a   Giles, Barry T ^a   Macgregor, Stuart A ^a   Rosair, Georgina M ^a   Welch, Alan J ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Isomerisation mechanisms; Metallacarborane; Synthesis; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

C ATOMS; INTERMEDIATE COMPOUND; ISOMERISATION; METALLACARBORANE; METALLATION; STRUCTURAL ISOMERS;

X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745683983     PISSN: 00201693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2006.01.023     Document Type: Article

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