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Open-shell doublet character in a hexaazatrinaphthylene trianion complex
2015
Three-electron reduction of hexaazatrinaphthylene (HAN) with a magnesium(I) reagent leads to [(HAN){Mg(nacnac)}3] (1), containing a [HAN]3– ligand with a spin of S = ½. Ab initio calculations reveal that the [HAN]3– ligand in 1 has a groundstate wave function with multiconfigurational properties, and can be described as a triradicaloid species with a small amount of open-shell doublet character. peerReviewed
Synthesis, structure and reaction chemistry of a nucleophilic aluminyl anion.
2018
The reactivity of aluminium compounds is dominated by their electron deficiency and consequent electrophilicity; these compounds are archetypal Lewis acids (electron-pair acceptors). The main industrial roles of aluminium, and classical methods of synthesizing aluminium–element bonds (for example, hydroalumination and metathesis), draw on the electron deficiency of species of the type AlR3 and AlCl31,2. Whereas aluminates, [AlR4]−, are well known, the idea of reversing polarity and using an aluminium reagent as the nucleophilic partner in bond-forming substitution reactions is unprecedented, owing to the fact that low-valent aluminium anions analogous to nitrogen-, carbon- and boron-centred…