New titanium and zirconium complexes with M-NH2 bonds formed by facile deprotonation of H3N.B(C6F5)3

Andrew J Mountford; William Clegg; Ross W Harrington; Simon M Humphrey; Simon J Lancaster

doi:10.1039/b500407a

New titanium and zirconium complexes with M-NH2 bonds formed by facile deprotonation of H3N.B(C6F5)3

Chem Commun (Camb). 2005 Apr 21:(15):2044-6. doi: 10.1039/b500407a. Epub 2005 Mar 1.

Authors

Andrew J Mountford¹, William Clegg, Ross W Harrington, Simon M Humphrey, Simon J Lancaster

Affiliation

¹ Wolfson Materials and Catalysis Centre, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK NR4 7TJ.

PMID: 15834500
DOI: 10.1039/b500407a

Abstract

Facile deprotonation of H3N.B(C6F5)3 with [M(NMe2)4](M = Zr or Ti) yields the novel amidoborate complexes [Zr(NMe2)3{NH2B(C6F5)3}(HNMe2)] and [Ti(NMe2)3{NH2B(C6F5)3}].