The "Wanderlust" of Me3Si groups in rare-earth triple-decker complexes: a combined experimental and computational study

Volker Lorenz; Phil Liebing; Adrien Bathelier; Felix Engelhardt; Laurent Maron; Liane Hilfert; Sabine Busse; Frank T Edelmann

doi:10.1039/c8cc05317k

The "Wanderlust" of Me₃Si groups in rare-earth triple-decker complexes: a combined experimental and computational study

Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Sep 11;54(73):10280-10283. doi: 10.1039/c8cc05317k.

Authors

Volker Lorenz¹, Phil Liebing, Adrien Bathelier, Felix Engelhardt, Laurent Maron, Liane Hilfert, Sabine Busse, Frank T Edelmann

Affiliation

¹ Chemisches Institut der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany. frank.edelmann@ovgu.de.

PMID: 30152513
DOI: 10.1039/c8cc05317k

Abstract

The migration of Me3Si groups ("Wanderlust") in rare-earth triple-decker sandwich complexes of the type Ln2(COT'')3 (COT'' = bis(trimethylsilyl)cyclooctatetraenyl) has been elucidated by a combined experimental and computational study. For the first time, two isomers of a Ln2(COT'')3 triple-decker have been isolated and characterized in the case of Y2(COT'')3.