Amino-aryl-carbenes: alternative ligands for transition metals?

Xavier Cattoën; Heinz Gornitzka; Didier Bourissou; Guy Bertrand

doi:10.1021/ja0396854

Amino-aryl-carbenes: alternative ligands for transition metals?

J Am Chem Soc. 2004 Feb 11;126(5):1342-3. doi: 10.1021/ja0396854.

Authors

Xavier Cattoën¹, Heinz Gornitzka, Didier Bourissou, Guy Bertrand

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée, UMR CNRS 5069, Université Paul Sabatier, 118, route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse, Cedex 04 France.

PMID: 14759183
DOI: 10.1021/ja0396854

Abstract

Despite the presence of a single amino substituent, an amino-anthryl-carbene was found to behave as a strong sigma-donor weak pi-acceptor ligand toward rhodium(I) fragments.