Li Bin, Wölper Christoph, Huse Kevin, Schulz Stephan
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Jul 31;56(61):8643-8646. doi: 10.1039/d0cc03831h.
Heteroleptic Zn(i) complexes CpZn-Zn(N(R)C(Cp)O) (R = Dipp = 2,6-i-Pr2-C6H32, t-Bu 3) with unsymmetrically η4-coordinated Cp* substituents represent snapshots of the insertion reaction of RNCO into the Zn-Cp* bond of Cp*2Zn21. The bonding situation in 2 and 3, which represent the first Zn(i) olefin complexes, was evaluated by computational calculation and further compared to other Zn(i) complexes.
