Assembly of metallo-macrocycles through reductive C–C coupling of alkylnitriles by an Mg–Mg-bonded compound

Authors :: Yujie Xue
Jijiang Wang
Yalei Shi
Wenhua Xu
Yanxia Zhao
Biao Wu
Xiao-Juan Yang
Source :: Dalton Transactions. 51:4394-4399
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2022.
Abstract: The dimagnesium(i) compound readily activates n-alkylnitriles to afford unique trinuclear magnesium macrocyclic complexes, [LMg(μ-{(NC–C(R)C(CH2R)–NH})]3[K3(Solv)6], through a reductive α-H deprotonation, C–C coupling, and 1,3-H shift.

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