Inorganics (Dec 2015)

Synthesis and Characterization of Cerium(IV) Metallocenes

  • Andrew D. Sutton,
  • David L. Clark,
  • Brian L. Scott,
  • John C. Gordon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/inorganics3040589
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 4
pp. 589 – 596

Abstract

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By applying a salt metathesis approach between Ce(OtBu3)2(NO3)2(THF)2 and the potassium salts of mono- and ditrimethylsilyl substituted cyclopentadienes, we were able to isolate two new Ce(IV) metallocenes, including to the best of our knowledge, the first structurally characterized bis-cyclopentadiene Ce(IV) compound.

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