Formation and structure of coordinatively unsaturated Cp*Ir-amino acid complexes. Kinetic and thermodynamic control in highly diastereoselective complexation reactions

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/om00008a014

Amino acid derivatives bearing an electron-withdrawing group Z on N (Z = tosyl, CO₂-CH₂Ph, or acetyl) serve as (N,O)-chelating, dianionic ligands to the fragment Cp*Ir. Six such complexes have been prepared, all of them coordinativel