Dynamic Stereochemical Rearrangements in Chira Organometallic

Heard, Peter J (2007) Dynamic Stereochemical Rearrangements in Chira Organometallic.

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Abstract

Organometallic complexes have long been known to display a wide variety of dynamic stereochemical processes. Classic examples of such processes include the exchange of axial and equatorial environments in trigonal bipyramidal complexes, such as Fe(CO)₅, and the migration of the metal moiety round the periphery of the cyclopentadiene ring in η¹-bound Cp complexes. The systematic study of fluxional processes is of interest because it can not only help provide a detailed, quantitative ‘picture’ of the bonding between the metals and ligands involved, but it can also help to rationalise chemical reactivity patterns. The introduction of chirality into organometallic complexes, usually in the form of a non-racemic chiral ligand, has led to an explosion in the importance such species, particularly with regard to their applications in organic functional group transformations. The presence of a chiral centre can also provide an excellent spectroscopic handle on the complex in question, enabling both novel fluxional processes to be observed and new light to be shed on old (unresolved) problems. In this critical review (101 references) the literature on metal-centred fluxional rearrangements in chiral transition and main group organometallic complexes is reviewed, complementing the recent review by Faller (see reference ).

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Additional Information: Copyright © 2007 RCS, and reproduced here by permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). This is the author's final draft after peer review. The article was published in Heard, P. J. (2007) 'Dynamic Stereochemical Rearrangements in Chiral Organometallic Complexes'. Chemical Society Reviews, 36(3), 551-569 by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the published version is available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b514855n
Keywords: organometallic complexes, dynamic NMR, fluxionality, chiral complexes, transition metals, main group metals
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Date Deposited: 05 Oct 2011 09:13
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2017 20:05
URI: https://glyndwr.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/148

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