UNPRECEDENTED CONVERSION OF BENZYLIDENEANILINES INTO ARYL ISOCYANIDESPROMOTED BY A LOW-VALENT MOLYBDENUM COMPLEX - X-RAY STRUCTURE OF TRANS-[MO(CNPH)(N-2)(PH2PCH2CH2PPH2)(2)]
G. Nakamura et al., UNPRECEDENTED CONVERSION OF BENZYLIDENEANILINES INTO ARYL ISOCYANIDESPROMOTED BY A LOW-VALENT MOLYBDENUM COMPLEX - X-RAY STRUCTURE OF TRANS-[MO(CNPH)(N-2)(PH2PCH2CH2PPH2)(2)], Organometallics, 17(6), 1998, pp. 1010-1012
The molybdenum dinitrogen complex trans-[Mo(N-2)(2)(dppe)(2)] (dppe =
Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2) reacts with an excess of PhCH = NAr (Ar = Ph, p-MeC6H4
, p-MeOC6H4) in benzene at reflux under N-2 to give novel isocyanide-d
initrogen complexes, trans-[Mo(CNAr)(N-2)(dppe)(2)] (5), in moderate y
ield. An X-ray diffraction study of 5a (Ar = Ph) is reported.