Photochemical and thermal reactions of metal carbonyls with bis(ethoxythiocarbonyl) sulfide: ESR of a new class of metal carbonyl-dithioketone radical complexes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/om00089a015

Although transition-metal carbonyl-1,2-diketo and -o-quinone radical complexes have been extensively studied, the ESR characterization of transition-metal carbonyl-bis(ethoxythiocarbonyl) sulfide radical complexes represents the first report of metal carbonyl-dithioketone radical complexes. These complexes include the rare stable iron-organo complex Fe(CO)₃· -BETS. Facile thermal substitution of organophosphorus ligands led to a further series of organometallic radical complexes.