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Rudy M. Brown
Ammonia Activation by a Nickel NCN-Pincer Complex featuring a Non-Innocent N-Heterocyclic Carbene: Ammine and Amido Complexes in Equilibrium
A Ni0-NCN pincer complex featuring a six-membered N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) central platform and amidine pendant arms was synthesized by deprotonation of its NiII precursor. It retained chloride in the square-planar coordination sphere of nickel and was expected to be highly susceptible to oxidative addition reactions. The Ni0 complex rapidly activated ammonia at room temperature, in a ligand-assisted process where the carbene carbon atom played the unprecedented role of proton acceptor. For the first time, the coordinated (ammine) and activated (amido) species were observed together in solution, in a solvent-dependent equilibrium. A structural analysis of the Ni complexes provided insig…
CCDC 1405505: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Related Article: Rudy M. Brown, Javier Borau Garcia, Juuso Valjus, Christopher J. Roberts, Heikki M. Tuononen, Masood Parvez, and Roland Roesler|2015|Angew.Chem.,Int.Ed.|54|6274|doi:10.1002/anie.201500453
CCDC 1405504: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
Related Article: Rudy M. Brown, Javier Borau Garcia, Juuso Valjus, Christopher J. Roberts, Heikki M. Tuononen, Masood Parvez, and Roland Roesler|2015|Angew.Chem.,Int.Ed.|54|6274|doi:10.1002/anie.201500453