Syntheses and X-ray strucutre determinations of the isomeric pentaphwnylethane tricarbonylchromium(0) complexes, 1-tricarbonylchromium(0) phenyl-1,1,2,2-tetraphenylethane and 2-tricarbonylchromium(0) phenyl-1,1,1,2-tetraphenylethane

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0022-328X(88)80341-3

Two chromium tricarbonyl (CTC) coordinated pentaphenylethanes (PPE) have been synthesized via organometallic coupling reactions.X-Ray structure determinations have shown the ethane carbon-carbon bond distances in C(1) and C(2) CTC complexes of PPE to be 1