Antiaromatic Metallacyclopentatriene Complexes

J Am Chem Soc. 2024 Nov 4. doi: 10.1021/jacs.4c14141. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

There is no report on the (anti)aromaticity of metallacyclopentatrienes, one kind of common and important five-membered metallacycles. This work presents the novel synthesis of osmium cis-biscarbene complexes and their oxidation to osmacyclopentatrienes. The osmacyclopentatriene unit is antiaromatic, as revealed by experimental and theoretical studies. This finding provides new insight into the discovery of antiaromatic species.