Cao Levy L, Daley Erika, Johnstone Timothy C, Stephan Douglas W
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Apr 18;52(30):5305-7. doi: 10.1039/c6cc01585a. Epub 2016 Mar 22.
Reaction of (Idipp)AlH3 with [Ph3C][B(C6F5)4] in toluene affords the dimeric aluminum dication [((Idipp)AlH(μ-H))2][B(C6F5)4]22. In contrast, the reaction of (IBn)AlH3 with [Ph3C][B(C6F5)4] in bromobenzene gives a redistribution product, the salt of a monomeric dication [(IBn)2AlH][B(C6F5)4]24.
