Flash photolysis studies of Lewis base addition to cyclopentadienyliron complex CpFe(CO)(.eta.3-CH2C6H5)

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Acknowledgment. The author is grateful to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the University of Alberta for support of this work. I also thank Professor M. Cowie of this department for the use of his diffractometer and for helpful discussions on the X-ray crystallographic analysis. Supplementary Material Available: Analytical and spectroscopic data for lb, lc, 2b, 2c, 3b, and 3c and tables of crystal data and details of intensity collection, positional parameters, anisotropic thermal parameters, least-squares planes, and bond lengths and angles (17 pages); a listing of observed and calculated structure factor amplitudes (12 pages). Ordering information is given on any current masthead page.

Remote substituent effects on homolytic FeC bond energies of p‐G‐C6H4CH2Fe(CO)2(η5‐C5H5) and p‐G‐C6H4(H)(CN)CFe(CO)2(η5‐C5H5) studied by Hartree–Fock and density functional theory methods

“…In reaction (2), the low‐temperature photolysis of FpBz at 77 K yields the η 3 ‐benzyl complex Cp(CO)Fe(η 3 ‐CH 2 Ph) via the loss of CO 16, 23–25. Upon the prolonged irradiation of fluid alkane solutions of FpBz at 298 K, Wrighton16 observed the dominant metal‐containing photoproduct ( η 5 ‐C 5 H 5 ) 2 Fe 2 (CO) 4 resulting from the FeC bond scission and radical intermediates.…”

New chemical and stereochemical applications of organoiron complexes

“…Other selected photoreactions of iron complexes include syntheses [ 837 , 838 ], elimination of the CO ligand in (η 5 -C 5 H 5 )Fe(CO) 2 (η 1 -CH 2 C 6 H 5 ) [ 839 ], α-elimination of carbon (to give metal π-complexes) [ 840 ], disproportionation of (η 5 -C 5 H 5 )Fe(CO) 4 [ 841 ], rearrangement of (η 5 -C 5 H 5 )Fe(CO) 2 -substituted oligosilanes [ 842 ], substitution of CO ligand in [Fe 2 (CO) 6 (L)P( n -Bu 3 )] (L=2,2′-bipyridine) [ 843 ], and breaking of the iron-nitrogen bond in [Fe(CO) 3 ( i -Pr) 2 (1,4-diaza-1,3-butadiene)] [ 844 ],…”