Reversible Reductive Elimination in Aluminum(II) Dihydrides.

Rosalyn L FalconerGary S NicholIvan V SmolyarScott L CockroftMichael J Cowley

Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2020)

Oxidative addition and reductive elimination are defining reactions of transition-metal organometallic chemistry. In main-group chemistry, oxidative addition is now well-established but reductive elimination reactions are not yet general in the same way. Herein, we report dihydrodialanes supported by amidophosphine ligands. The ligand serves as a stereochemical reporter for reversible reductive elimination/oxidative addition chemistry involving AlI and AlIII intermediates.

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