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Remarkable stability of metallocenes with superbulky ligands: Spontaneous reduction of SmIII to SmII
Ruspic, Christian,Moss, John R.,Schuermann, Markus,Harder, Sjoerd
, p. 2121 - 2126 (2008/12/23)
Unexpected attraction between extremely bulky cyclopentadienyl ligands of opposite chirality has been observed in perarylated metallocenes [(Ar 5C5)2M]. The exceptional stability of such sterically congested metallocenes (see structure) is explained by a merry-go-round C-H...C(π) hydrogen-bond network. This stabilizing force even enables spontaneous reduction of a SmIII precursor to a Sm II metallocene. (Figure Presented)
