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Room-Temperature Alkyne–Nitrile Metathesis and Unambiguous Proof for the Existence of a High-Valent Iron-Nitrido Dication in the Gas Phase. Short Communication

✍ Scribed by John P. Boyd; Maria Schlangen; Andreas Grohmann; Helmut Schwarz


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
German
Weight
224 KB
Volume
91
Category
Article
ISSN
0018-019X

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Abstract

An unprecedented alkyne–nitrile metathesis takes place when the high‐valent iron‐nitrido dication [Fe(L)N]^2+^, with L=2,6‐bis(2‐methyl‐1,3‐diaminopropan‐2‐yl)pyridine, is reacted with alkynes in the gas phase under thermal conditions. While the detailed role of the alkyne substrate with respect to relative rates, regioselectivities, and branching ratios remains to be elucidated, the very existence of this novel metathesis reaction provides additional experimental evidence of a genuine, long‐lived, formal iron(V)‐nitrido dication.