Structural Elucidation of the Illustrious Tebbe Reagent
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posted on 2014-01-13, 00:00 authored by Rick Thompson, Eiko Nakamaru-Ogiso, Chun-Hsing Chen, Maren Pink, Daniel J. MindiolaThe
Tebbe reagent, [Cp2Ti(μ2-Cl)(μ2-CH2)AlMe2] (1), has finally
been structurally characterized due to the fortuitous formation of
cocrystals of 1 and [Cp2Ti(μ2-Cl)2AlMe2] (2). Single crystals
of 1 and 2, despite being extremely reactive
and forming an amorphous white coat, can be mounted and data collected
to high resolution, thereby providing for the first time a solid-state
representation of a titanium methylidene adduct with diphilic AlClMe2.
