Ln(ii) amido complexes coordinated by ring-expanded N-heterocyclic carbenes – promising catalysts for olefin hydrophosphination?

Chemical Communications Pub Date: 2020-09-16 DOI: 10.1039/D0CC05424K

Abstract

First Ln(II) ring-expanded NHC complexes (er-NHC)Ln[N(SiMe3)2]2 (Ln = Sm, Yb) are synthesized and proved to be highly efficient pre-catalysts for the intermolecular hydrophosphination of such indolent substrates as 1-alkenes, cyclohexene and norbornene.

Graphical abstract: Ln(ii) amido complexes coordinated by ring-expanded N-heterocyclic carbenes – promising catalysts for olefin hydrophosphination
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