Fr. Askham et al., REACTIVITY OF ANIONIC ZIRCONAOXIRANES TOWARD METAL-CARBONYLS - IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MECHANISM OF HOMOGENEOUSLY CATALYZED CARBON-MONOXIDE HYDROGENATION, Organometallics, 13(6), 1994, pp. 2139-2140
Reactions of anionic zirconocene eta2-aldehyde complexes with metal ca
rbonyls lead to rapid and quantitative formation of heterobimetallic c
omplexes containing a new carbon-carbon bond, thereby suggesting a mod
ified mechanism for homogeneously catalyzed carbon monoxide hydrogenat
ion. Nine new bimetallic complexes are reported, including the X-ray s
tructure of 5-C5H4Me)2Zr(Me){OCH(C6H4Me)C(O)Fe(CO)4]Li-(THF)2.