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SUBMITTER: MacLeod KC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8184022 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organometallics 20191010 21
We report the first Fe─CPh<sub>3</sub> complex, and show that the long Fe─C bond can be disrupted by neutral π-acceptor ligands (benzophenone and phenylacetylene) to release the triphenylmethyl radical. The products are formally iron(I) complexes, but X-ray absorption spectroscopy coupled with density functional and multireference <i>ab initio</i> calculations indicates that the best description of all the complexes is iron(II). In the formally iron(I) complexes, this does not imply that the π-a ...[more]