Single and double substrate insertion into the Ti=N(alpha) bonds of terminal titanium hydrazides

Pei-Jen Tiong; A Daniel Schofield; Jonathan D Selby; Ainara Nova; Eric Clot; Philip Mountford

doi:10.1039/b920090h

Single and double substrate insertion into the Ti=N(alpha) bonds of terminal titanium hydrazides

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Jan 7;46(1):85-7. doi: 10.1039/b920090h. Epub 2009 Nov 19.

Authors

Pei-Jen Tiong¹, A Daniel Schofield, Jonathan D Selby, Ainara Nova, Eric Clot, Philip Mountford

Affiliation

¹ Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, UK.

PMID: 20024301
DOI: 10.1039/b920090h

Abstract

Nitriles, CO(2) and isocyanates undergo net single or double insertion reactions into the Ti=N(alpha) multiple bonds of terminal titanium hydrazides. These are the first such examples of this type of reactivity for any transition metal hydrazide complex.