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Photogeneration of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes: Application in Photoinduced Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization
Published on: November 29, 2018
Activation of open-cage fullerenes with ruthenium carbonyl clusters
Chi-Shian Chen1, Yu-Fang Lin, Wen-Yann Yeh
1Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804 (Taiwan), Fax: (+886) 7-5253908.
Abstract:
Reactions of the open-cage fullerene C63NO2(Py)(Ph)2 (1) with [Ru3(CO)12] produce [Ru3(CO)8(μ,η(5)-C63NO2(Py)(Ph)2)] (2), [Ru2H(CO)3(μ,η(7)-C63N(Py)(Ph)(C6H4))] (3), and [Ru(CO)(Py)2(η(3)-C63NO2(Py)(Ph)2)] (4), in which the orifice sizes are modified from 12 to 8, 11, and 15-membered ring, through ruthenium-mediated C-O and C-C bond activation and formation.
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