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Preparation and Reactivity of a Triphosphenium Bromide Salt: A Convenient and Stable Source of Phosphorus(I)
Published on: November 22, 2016
First example of a molecular Ce(III) phosphonate: synthesis, structural characterization and catalytic activity of
Vadapalli Chandrasekhar1, Palani Sasikumar
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India. vc@iitk.ac.in
Abstract:
The X-ray structural characterization of tritylphosphonic acid, Ph3CPO3H2 (), reveals that it possesses three different structural forms (a hexameric cage, a two-dimensional polymeric sheet and a dimer) depending upon the solvent used for crystallization. The reaction of cerium nitrate with under solvothermal conditions afforded a molecular dinuclear Ce(III) phosphonate, [Ce2{Ph3CPO2(OEt)}4(NO3)2(H2O)4] (). The molecular structure of reveals that the two cerium atoms are held together by two isobidentate phosphonate and nitrate ligands. The cerium atoms are enveloped by a 8 O coordination environment in a distorted dodecahedral geometry. is found to be a good catalyst for the three-component Biginelli reaction.
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