Sl. Vanatta et al., Microwave-assisted synthesis of group 6 (Cr, Mo, W) zerovalent organometallic carbonyl compounds, ORGANOMETAL, 19(12), 2000, pp. 2397-2399
The microwave-assisted synthesis of a series of compounds of the form ML(CO
)(4) (M = Cr, Mo, W; L en, bipy, dppm, dppe), results in the reduction of r
eaction times and an increase in yields over previously published syntheses
. Reaction times are reduced by a factor of 5 to over 500.