Evangelos Papangelis, Katrin Pelzer, Christophe Gourlaouen, Dominique Armspach, Pierre Braunstein, Andreas A Danopoulos, Corinne Bailly, Nikolaos Tsoureas, Dimitrios Triantafyllos Gerokonstantis
The pincer complexes [NiIIBr(CNC)]Br (4), [CrIIIBr3(CNC)] (5a) and [CrIIIBr2.3Cl0.7(CNC)] (5b), where CNC = 3,3'-(pyridine-2,6-diyl)bis(1-mesityl-3,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrimidin-2-ylidene), were obtained from the novel ligand CNC, generated in situ from the precursor (CHNCH)Br2 and [NiIIBr2(PPh3)2] or from [CrII{N(SiMe3)2}2(THF)2] and (CHNCH)Br2 by aminolysis, respectively. The tetrahedrally distorted square planar (τ4 ≅ 0.30) geometry and the singlet ground state of Ni in 4 were attributed to steric constraints of the CNC backbone...
April 15, 2024: Chemistry, An Asian Journal