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Kasuni C Boteju1, Suchen Wan, Amrit Venkatesh
1Department of Chemistry and US DOE Ames Laboratory, 1605 Gilman Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA. sadow@iastate.edu.
Abstract:
A new bulky silazido ligand, -N(SiHMe2)Dipp (Dipp = C6H3-2,6-iPr2), supports planar, three-coordinate homoleptic rare earth complexes Ln{N(SiHMe2)Dipp}3 (Ln = Sc, Y, and Lu), each containing three secondary Ln↼HSi interactions and one agostic CH bond. Y{N(SiHMe2)Dipp}3 and acetophenone react via hydrosilylation, rather than by insertion into the Y-N bond or by enolate formation.
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