Reversible heterolytic CH cleavage by i
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Bror Johan Wik; Christian Rømming; Mats Tilset
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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instead give products Cp \* IrClCH 2 C(=NHAr)CMe=N(Ar) + Cl -in which the dab ligand has undergone C-H activation at one of methyl groups of the dab bridge. The C-H cleavage reaction is reversible in the sense that thermally, the cyclometalated Ir complex decomposes to regenerate the free ligand.