M. Aizenberg et D. Milstein, ELECTROPHILIC LIGAND ABSTRACTION FROM ELECTRON-RICH IRIDIUM(I) COMPLEXES WITH ME(3)-SIOTF - EVIDENCE FOR DIRECT LIGAND ATTACK, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (4), 1994, pp. 411-412
Me3SiOTf(Tf=CF3SO2) is a useful reagent for electrophilic abstraction
reactions involving electron-rich complexes RIrL(n) (R = H, Cl, Me, Ph
; L = PMe(3), PEt(3)); direct external attack of Me(3)Si(+) on R is pr
obably involved.