Reductive carbonylation of cobalt(II) in the presence of diphenylphosphine: synthesis and structure of (PPN) and MeCOCo(CO)2(PPH2H)(PPh2OMe)

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0022-328X(89)87084-6

Cobalt(II) is reduced to Co(-I) by PPh2H in the presence of CO in MeOH solution containing NaOMe; the complex (PPN) (1) was isolated from the reaction product in 12percent yield.Alkylation of the cobaltate anion with MeI gave after addit