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Published on: July 17, 2015
Single and double substrate insertion into the Ti=N(alpha) bonds of terminal titanium hydrazides
Pei-Jen Tiong1, A Daniel Schofield, Jonathan D Selby
1Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, UK.
Abstract:
Nitriles, CO(2) and isocyanates undergo net single or double insertion reactions into the Ti=N(alpha) multiple bonds of terminal titanium hydrazides. These are the first such examples of this type of reactivity for any transition metal hydrazide complex.

