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Published on: September 8, 2013
Bis(2-butyl-N,N'-diisopropylamidinato)dichlorohafnium(IV)
Andrian P Milanov1, Raghunandan Bhakta, Manuela Winter
1Anorganische Chemie 2, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
Abstract:
The title compound, [Hf(C11H23N2)2Cl(2)], is a monomeric hafnium(IV) complex containing two bidentate amidinate ligands and two cis Cl atoms. The crystals are triclinic (space group P-1) and there is one independent six-coordinate monomer with a highly distorted octahedral geometry in the asymmetric unit. The reported structure is the first hafnium-amidinate complex to be characterized successfully by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
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