L. Lee et al., REVERSIBLE YTTRIUM ALKYNIDE COUPLING SUPPORTED BY DAC (DEPROTONATED 4,13-DIAZA-18-CROWN-6) LIGATION, Organometallics, 14(11), 1995, pp. 5021-5023
The reaction of Y(DAC)(CH(2)SiMe(3)) (1) with phenylacetylene produces
an equilibrium mixture of the alkynide-coupled butatrienediyl complex
[Y(mu-DAC)](2)(mu(Z)-PhC=C=C=CPh) (2) and the uncoupled bridging alky
nide dimer [(DAC)Y(mu-C=CPh)](2) (3). Unlike other butatrienediyl comp
lexes of yttrium or the lanthanides, this unit adopts a Z conformation
, in complex 2.