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Accessing Valuable Ligand Supports for Transition Metals: A Modified, Intermediate Scale Preparation of 1,2,3,4,5-Pentamethylcyclopentadiene
Published on: March 20, 2017
Amidobis[eta5-1,3-bis(trimethylsilyl)cyclopentadienyl]titanium(III)
Chadwick D Sofield1, Marc D Walter, Richard A Andersen
1Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Abstract:
The title compound, [Ti(C11H21Si2)2(NH2)], crystallizes as a bent metallocene, with the NH2 group oriented to maximize the pi interaction between the N atom and the Ti(III) center. The increased pi bonding is reflected in a short Ti-N bond length of 1.933 (3) A.
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