IRON CARBONYL COMPLEXATION OF DITHIOESTERS. FORMATION OF A CHIRAL CARBON CENTER ?-BONDED TO AN IRON ATOM

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0022-328X(00)81020-7

Dithioesters react with diiron nonacarbonyl to afford binuclear complexes resulting from coordination of the carbon-sulfur double bond to the two iron atoms and donation of two electrons from the S-alkyl group to one iron center.This novel mode of complexation creates a carbon-iron single bond and a chiral center at the carbon atom bonded to the metal, as shown by the spectroscopic studies and by a X-ray structure determination.