Homoleptic Transition Metal Carbonyl Cations: Synthetic Approaches, Characterization and Follow-Up Chemistry

M Sellin, I Krossing - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Carbon monoxide, CO, is one of the most important ligands in organometallic
chemistry. It is an excellent π-acceptor and a moderate σ-donor. Therefore, most of the …

Aminocarbyne ligands in organometallic chemistry

L Biancalana, F Marchetti - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Following the former synthetic work on group 6 metal complexes, aminocarbyne
(aminoalkylidyne) ligands have become popular across various transition metal groups …

Metal–CO bonding in mononuclear transition metal carbonyl complexes

G Frenking, I Fernández, N Holzmann, S Pan… - Jacs Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
DFT calculations have been carried out for coordinatively saturated neutral and charged
carbonyl complexes [M (CO) n] q where M is a metal atom of groups 2–10. The model …

Pushing redox potentials to highly positive values using inert fluorobenzenes and weakly coordinating anions

C Armbruster, M Sellin, M Seiler, T Würz… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
While the development of weakly coordinating anions (WCAs) received much attention, the
progress on weakly coordinating and inert solvents almost stagnated. Here we study the …

Synthesis and Characterization of a Stable Nickelocenium Dication Salt

JM Rall, M Lapersonne, M Schorpp… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We report the synthesis and characterization of the nickelocenium cations [NiCp2]⋅+ and
[NiCp2] 2+ as their [F‐{Al (ORF) 3} 2]−(Cp= C5H5; RF= C (CF3) 3) salts. Diamagnetic …

Towards clustered carbonyl cations [M 3 (CO) 14] 2+(M= Ru, Os): the need for innocent deelectronation

M Sellin, C Friedmann, M Mayländer, S Richert… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
To access the hitherto almost unknown class of clustered transition metal carbonyl cations,
the trimetal dodecacarbonyls M3 (CO) 12 (M= Ru, Os) were reacted with the oxidant Ag+ …

Transition Metal Nitrosyls: Statistics, Charge Estimates via CDVR, and Studies of Tetradentate Chelate Diamides (pddi) M and (pddi) MNO (M= Cr, Fe, and Co)

AA D'Arpino, TR Cundari, PT Wolczanski… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Correlations of ν (NO) with d (NO),/MNO, and charge from roughly 560 first row transition
metal complexes are graphically depicted. An equation of charge (c NO={ν (NO)–1960}/450 …

Synthesis and characterization of stable iron pentacarbonyl radical cation salts

JM Rall, M Schorpp, M Keilwerth… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The open‐shell iron pentacarbonyl cation [Fe (CO) 5].+ was isolated by deelectronation, ie,
the single‐electron oxidation of the parent neutral Fe (CO) 5 using [phenazineF].+ as the [Al …

Photoactive metal carbonyl complexes bearing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: synthesis, characterization, and viability as photoredox catalysts

M Tang, L Cameron, EM Poland, LJ Yu… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This report details the synthesis and characterization of a small family of previously
unreported, structurally related chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, manganese, and iron …

Isolation and Characterization of the Homoleptic Nickel (I) and Nickel (II) Bis‐benzene Sandwich Cations

M Schmitt, M Mayländer, T Heizmann… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A stable salt of the metalloradical [Ni (C6H6) 2]+ hitherto unknown in the condensed phase
was synthesized from [Ni (CO) 4]+[WCA]− and benzene ([WCA]−=[F {Al (ORF) 3} 2]−; RF= C …