A first structural and theoretical comparison of pyridinylidene-type rNHC (remote N-heterocyclic carbene) and NHC complexes of Ni(II) obtained by oxidative substitution
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2006
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Schneider S.K.
Julius G.R.
Loschen C.
Raubenheimer H.G.
Frenking G.
Herrmann W.A.
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A series of cationic pyridinylidene and quinolinylidene complexes of chlorobis(triphenylphosphine)nickel(ii) were prepared by oxidative substitution of Ni(PPh3)4 with methylated chloropyridines or chloroquinolines. NMR as well as X-ray crystallographic studies confirmed the trans arrangement of the two phosphines in the products. Calculations, using suitable model compounds at the BP86/TZVP level, clearly differentiate between a standard imidazolylidene complex and new complexes of the NHC-type on the one hand, and new complexes classified as rNHC-types - with the heteroatom distant from the carbene carbon - on the other. The latter form significantly stronger bonds - mainly of an electrostatic nature - with the metal. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2006.
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Chemical bonds, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Phosphorus compounds, Substitution reactions, X ray crystallography, Carbene carbon, Chloroquinolines, Oxidative substitution, Pyridinylidene-type rNHC (remote N-heterocyclic carbene), Nitrogen compounds
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Dalton Transactions
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