Cp. Casey et al., PHOTOCHEMICAL-REARRANGEMENT OF A RHENIUM DIMETALLACYCLOBUTENE STUDIEDBY TIME-RESOLVED INFRARED-SPECTROSCOPY, Organometallics, 15(9), 1996, pp. 2189-2191
Time-resolved infrared spectral studies of the photochemical transform
ation (quantum yield 0.41 for 366 nm photolysis in cyclohexane) of the
3,4-dirhenacyclobutene complex 1 to the 2,4-dirhena[1.1.0]bicyclobuta
ne complex 2 demonstrate the prompt formation of the short-lived inter
mediate I proposed to be a bis(metallacarbene).