Reiners Matthias, Fecker Ann Christin, Freytag Matthias, Jones Peter G, Walter Marc D
Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Hagenring 30, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
Dalton Trans. 2014 May 14;43(18):6614-7. doi: 10.1039/c4dt00545g.
Open-metallocenes of the heavy alkaline-earth metals [(η(5)-Pdl')2M(thf)n] (M = Ca (1), Sr (2), n = 1; M = Ba (3), n = 2; Pdl' = 2,4-tBu2C5H5) are readily prepared by salt-metathesis between MI2 and KPdl' and characterized by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction studies.