Affiliation:
1. KAUST Catalysis Center Division of Physical Science and Engineering King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 23955 Thuwal Saudi Arabia
2. Agency for Science, Technology and Research Institute of Materials Research and Engineering Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment 138634 Singapore Singapore
Abstract
AbstractThe alkylation of a nitride ligand of a post‐modified Mo(V) complex was achieved with MeOTf (1 a) and EtOTf (2 a), respectively. However, different from the known Mo(VI) nitride complexes where the alkyl group can be deprotonated by strong bases to form a ketimide for the next progressive reactions leading to nitrile, 1 a and 2 a can only be reduced to highly stable Mo(IV) imido complexes by NaH. Upon treatment with fresh PhCH2OTf, a new dinuclear Mo complex was isolated with N2 release, instead of benzylation of the nitride ligand.