TY - JOUR
T1 - A convenient synthesis of cyclopentadienylgallium - the awakening of a sleeping beauty in organometallic chemistry
AU - Schenk, Christian Lars
AU - Koeppe, Ralf
AU - Schnoeckel, Hansgeorg
AU - Schnepf, Andreas
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Solid GaI reacts with NaCp to yield (eta(5)-cyclopentadienyl)gallium (GaCp) (1). During the synthesis the side product, CpGa -> GaCp(2)I (2), with a rare gallium-gallium donor-acceptor bond could be isolated. The reaction of 1 with B(C(6)F(5))(3) affords CpGa -> B(C(6)F(5))(3) (4). The molecular structures of 2 and 4, which contain the first GaCp moieties, are presented. The convenient synthesis of 1 needs only standard laboratory equipment and certainly opens the door for 1 to become a versatile reagent in organometallic chemistry; awakening the sleeping beauty GaCp nearly twenty years after its initial discovery.
AB - Solid GaI reacts with NaCp to yield (eta(5)-cyclopentadienyl)gallium (GaCp) (1). During the synthesis the side product, CpGa -> GaCp(2)I (2), with a rare gallium-gallium donor-acceptor bond could be isolated. The reaction of 1 with B(C(6)F(5))(3) affords CpGa -> B(C(6)F(5))(3) (4). The molecular structures of 2 and 4, which contain the first GaCp moieties, are presented. The convenient synthesis of 1 needs only standard laboratory equipment and certainly opens the door for 1 to become a versatile reagent in organometallic chemistry; awakening the sleeping beauty GaCp nearly twenty years after its initial discovery.
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejic.201100672/pdf
U2 - 10.1002/ejic.201100672
DO - 10.1002/ejic.201100672
M3 - Article
VL - 2011
SP - 3681
EP - 3685
JO - European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
JF - European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
SN - 1434-1948
IS - 25
ER -