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Synthesis of novel copper-rare earth BINOLate frameworks from a hydrogen bonding DBU-H rare earth BINOLate complex
Grace B Panetti1, Jerome R Robinson, Patrick J Carroll
1P. Roy and Diana T. Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. pwalsh@sas.upenn.edu schelter@sas.upenn.edu.
Abstract:
The preparation of a novel H-bonding DBU-H+ BINOLate Rare Earth Metal complex enabled the synthesis of the first copper-Rare Earth Metal BINOLate complex (CuDBU-REMB). CuDBU-REMB was compared to the analogous Li complex using X-ray crystallography and Exchange NMR spectroscopy (EXSY). The results provide insight into the role of the secondary metal cation in the framework's stabilization.
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