Probing the interactions of transition-metal complexes bound at the ortho position of substituted biphenyls

by Jones, G. D.; Anderson, T. J.; Chang, N.; Brandon, R. J.; Ong, G. L.; Vicic, D. A.

(4,4'-dimethylbipyridyl)NiMe2 was found to react thermally with 2-iodo-2',4',6'-trimethylbiphenyl (6) to produce a C-I insertion that is extremely distorted from square planarity, with the C-Ni-I plane intersecting the N-Ni-N plane by 33.4degrees. It was also found that [(dippe)RhCl](2) reacts with 6 to produce an eta(3)-benzylic complex by way of a rhodium migration to the methylated ring of the biphenyl unit.

Journal
Organometallics
Volume
23
Issue
12
Year
2004
Start Page
3071-3074
URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/om034363u
ISBN/ISSN
1520-6041; 0276-7333
DOI
10.1021/om034363u