Reversible beta-hydrogen elimination of three-coordinate iron(II) alkyl complexes: Mechanistic and thermodynamic studies

Organometallics

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 5226-5239

  Vela, Javier ^a   Vaddadi, Sridhar ^b   Cundari, Thomas R ^b   Smith, Jeremy M ^a,c   Gregory, Elizabeth A ^a   Lachicotte, Rene J ^a   Flaschenriem, Christine J ^a   Holland, Patrick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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CATALYTIC TRANSFORMATIONS; DEPROTONATION; EXCHANGE REACTIONS;

CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BONDS; HYDROGEN; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ORGANOMETALLICS;

EID: 8344267913     PISSN: 02767333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/om049415+     Document Type: Article

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137. Agostic C-H ⋯M bonding affects the reactivity of many early- and late-metal hydrocarbyl complexes: (a) Schmidt, G. F.; Brookhart, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1985, 107, 1443-1444. (b) Guo, Z.; Swenson, D. C. Organometallics 1994, 13, 1424. (c) Grubbs, R. H.; Coates, G. W. Acc. Chem. Res. 1996, 29, 85-93. (d) Calhorda, M. J. Chem. Commun. 2000, 801-809. (e) Shultz, L. H.; Brookhart, M. Organometallics 2001, 20, 3975-3982. (f) Jensen, V. R.; Thiel, W. Organometallics 2001, 20, 4852-4862. (g) Yu, Z.-X.; Houk, K. N. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 808-811.
138. Agostic C-H ⋯M bonding affects the reactivity of many early- and late-metal hydrocarbyl complexes: (a) Schmidt, G. F.; Brookhart, M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1985, 107, 1443-1444. (b) Guo, Z.; Swenson, D. C. Organometallics 1994, 13, 1424. (c) Grubbs, R. H.; Coates, G. W. Acc. Chem. Res. 1996, 29, 85-93. (d) Calhorda, M. J. Chem. Commun. 2000, 801-809. (e) Shultz, L. H.; Brookhart, M. Organometallics 2001, 20, 3975-3982. (f) Jensen, V. R.; Thiel, W. Organometallics 2001, 20, 4852-4862. (g) Yu, Z.-X.; Houk, K. N. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 808-811.
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