Covalent palladium-zinc bonds and their reactivity

Claudia M Fafard; Chun-Hsing Chen; Bruce M Foxman; Oleg V Ozerov

doi:10.1039/b709364k

Covalent palladium-zinc bonds and their reactivity

Chem Commun (Camb). 2007 Nov 21:(43):4465-7. doi: 10.1039/b709364k. Epub 2007 Aug 22.

Authors

Claudia M Fafard¹, Chun-Hsing Chen, Bruce M Foxman, Oleg V Ozerov

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, MS 015, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.

PMID: 17971957
DOI: 10.1039/b709364k

Abstract

Photolysis of ((F)PNP)Pd-Et in the presence of Et(2)Zn leads to the formation of ((F)PNP)Pd-Zn-Pd(PNP(F)), the first example of a compound with a covalent Pd-Zn bond.