posted on 2005-05-23, 00:00authored bySiu Kwan Yeung, Kin Shing Chan
(Porphyrinato)rhodium(III) ethyls containing
β-nitrogen substituents have been showed to undergo
clean, thermal 1,2-rearrangements into the α-nitrogen-substituted rhodium ethyls. The rates and the equilibrium positions were found to be dependent on the
electronic nature of the N substituents. Complexes 1a−3a were characterized by X-ray crystallography.