Probing the interactions of transition-metal complexes bound at the ortho position of substituted biphenyls
by Jones, Gavin David; Anderson, Thomas Jefferson; Chang, Ninca; Brandon, R. Jacob; Ong, Grace Li-Pin; Vicic, David 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
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1520-6041; 0276-7333
- DOI
- 10.1021/om034363u