Mg. Gardiner et al., A BENT BAROCENE BASED ON METALATED 2-PYRIDYLPHENYLMETHANE - )-PHCH(C5H4N-2))(2)(MEO(CH2)(2)O(CH2)(2)OME)(THF)], Chemical communications, (15), 1996, pp. 1795-1796
Reaction of barium metal with 2-pyridylphenylmethane in liquid ammonia
, thf and diglyme at -50 degrees C then ca, 70 degrees C yields the me
tallated bent 'open metallocene' with the metal centre bound in an eta
(5) manner to the ipso-C, adjacent C-centres and nearest N, C centres,
a tridentate diglyme and a thf molecule [Ba-C, N 2.983(6)-3.303(6) An
gstrom, Ba-O 2.766(4)-2.855(4) Angstrom determined at -100 degrees C].