Mechanism of Reduction and Metalation of para Carboranes: The Missing 13-Vertex MC₂B₁₀ Isomer

Mechanism of Reduction and Metalation of para Carboranes: The Missing 13-Vertex MC₂B₁₀ Isomer

Unanticipated complexity: The first example of a 4,1,11‐MC2B10 metallacarborane (see picture; Ru magenta, B pink, C gray, H white) is reported. Reduction and metalation of 1,12‐Ph2‐1,12‐closo‐C2B10H10 at both room temperature and low temperature yields no fewer than five isomeric supraicosahedral me...

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Published in:Angewandte Chemie (International ed.) Vol. 46; no. 35; pp. 6706 - 6709
Main Authors: Zlatogorsky, Sergey, Edie, Michael J, Ellis, David, Erhardt, Stefan, Lopez, Maria Elena, Macgregor, Stuart A, Rosair, Georgina M, Welch, Alan J
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Weinheim Wiley-VCH Verlag 01-01-2007
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Subjects:
boron
carboranes
isomerization
reduction
ruthenium
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Summary:Unanticipated complexity: The first example of a 4,1,11‐MC2B10 metallacarborane (see picture; Ru magenta, B pink, C gray, H white) is reported. Reduction and metalation of 1,12‐Ph2‐1,12‐closo‐C2B10H10 at both room temperature and low temperature yields no fewer than five isomeric supraicosahedral metallacarborane products. Calculations identify two initial nido‐[C2B10H12]2− species, each with one C atom that is not in the open face.
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.200702058
Heriot-Watt University
We thank the ORSAS, Heriot-Watt University, and the EPSRC for support, Dr. A. S. F. Boyd for NMR spectra, Mr. G. P. Smith for mass spectra, and Ms. C. Graham for microanalysis.
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We thank the ORSAS, Heriot‐Watt University, and the EPSRC for support, Dr. A. S. F. Boyd for NMR spectra, Mr. G. P. Smith for mass spectra, and Ms. C. Graham for microanalysis.
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ISSN:1433-7851
1521-3773
DOI:10.1002/anie.200702058