Low-valent homobimetallic Rh complexes: influence of ligands on the structure and the intramolecular reactivity of Rh

Low-valent homobimetallic Rh complexes: influence of ligands on the structure and the intramolecular reactivity of Rh–H intermediates

Published:2019 Issue:34 Volume:10 Page:7937-7945
ISSN:2041-6520
Container-title:Chemical Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Chem. Sci.

Author:

Jurt Pascal¹²³,Salnikov Oleg G.⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸,Gianetti Thomas L.¹²³⁹¹⁰^ORCID,Chukanov Nikita V.⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸,Baker Matthew G.¹²³,Le Corre Grégoire¹²³,Borger Jaap E.¹²³,Verel Rene¹²³^ORCID,Gauthier Sébastien¹¹¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵,Fuhr Olaf¹⁶¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹^ORCID,Kovtunov Kirill V.⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸^ORCID,Fedorov Alexey¹²³²⁰²^ORCID,Fenske Dieter¹⁶¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹,Koptyug Igor V.⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸^ORCID,Grützmacher Hansjörg¹²³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences

2. ETH Zürich

3. Switzerland

4. International Tomography Center

5. SB RAS

6. Novosibirsk

7. Russia

8. Novosibirsk State University

9. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

10. University of Arizona

11. Université de Rennes

12. CNRS

13. ISCR-UMR 6226

14. F-35000 Rennes

15. France

16. Institute of Nanotechnology

17. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

18. Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

19. Germany

20. Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering

Abstract

Supporting two metal binding sites by a tailored polydentate trop-based (trop = 5H-dibenzo[a,d]cyclohepten-5-yl) ligand yields highly unsymmetric homobimetallic rhodium(i) complexes. These were studied as models for Rh/C hydrogenation catalysts.

Funder

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Russian Science Foundation

Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/SC/C9SC02683E

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