ChemInform Abstract: Aldehyde C—H Activation with Late Transition Metal Organometallic Compounds: Formation and Reactivity of Acyl Hydrido Complexes

Versatile Coordination Modes of 2-(Difor

Versatile Coordination Modes of 2-(Diformylmethylene)-3,3-dimethylindole towards Late-Transition-Metal Ions: C–H Bond Activation and Formation of Cyclic Acyl–Palladium(II) Complexes

✍ Hamid Khaledi; Hapipah Mohd Ali; Marilyn M. Olmstead 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 343 KB

## Abstract The reaction of the potential multidentate ligand, 2‐(diformylmethylene)‐3,3‐dimethylindole (diformyl), with M(OAc)~2~ (M = Co^II^, Ni^II^, Cu^II^, Zn^II^, Cd^II^, and Pd^II^) afforded a series of metal complexes with different nuclearity in which the mono‐deprotonated diformyl behaves