G. Erker et al., C-H-ACTIVATION BY REACTION OF (BUTADIENE)ZIRCONOCENES AND (BUTADIENE)HAFNOCENES WITH 9-BBN, Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English, 32(8), 1993, pp. 1213-1215
The simultaneous effects of a boryl substituent and a metallocene unit
on a butadiene ligand can lead to C - H activation of this simple org
anic compound: Heating the complexes (1) formed from the relevant (but
adiene)metallocene and 9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane (9-BBN) affords comp
lexes 2 (M = Zr) or, by the elimination of H-2, 3 (M = Zr, Hf). R = H,
Me.