The Role of Organoferrates in Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings.
Sebastian SandlAxel Jacobi von WangelinPublished in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2020)
Recent groundbreaking studies on organoferrates have demonstrated that coordinatively unsaturated three-coordinate-σ-alkylferrates are active catalysts in Fe-catalyzed cross-couplings with Grignard reagents and that pronounced solvent and counterion effects dictate metalate speciation and catalyst activity. Thanks to modern spectroscopic methods, sensitive catalyst intermediates could be analyzed.