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Tungsten-Catalyzed Alkyne Metatheses in Transition-Metal Coordination Spheres: Versatile New Syntheses of Metallamacrocycles
journal contribution
posted on 2003-04-29, 00:00 authored by Eike B. Bauer, Slawomir Szafert, F. Hampel, J. A. GladyszThe title reaction (10−15 mol % of (t-BuO)3W(⋮C-t-Bu), chlorobenzene, 80 °C) is applied to octahedral
and square-planar 18- and 16-valence-electron rhenium,
ruthenium, and platinum complexes with cis- or trans-Ph2P(CH2)6C⋮CCH3 ligands. NMR analyses show ca.
90−70% educt conversions, and 17-membered diphosphine chelates have been isolated in 59−47% yields and
crystallographically characterized.