Stepwise reduction of a base-stabilised ferrocenyl aluminium(<scp>iii</scp>) dihalide for the synthesis of structurally-diverse dialane species
Debabrata Dhara, Felipe Fantuzzi, Marcel Härterich, Rian D. Dewhurst, Ivo Krummenacher, Merle Arrowsmith, Conor Pranckevicius, Holger Braunschweig
Abstract
A bulky ferrocenyl-based NHC-stabilised aluminium( iii ) dihalide was reduced in different solvents, leading to vastly different outcomes, including formation of a rare example of a dialane and a novel dialuminyl analogue of the Birch reduction.
Topics & Concepts
ChemistryHexaneTolueneBenzeneAluminiumXyleneSolventMedicinal chemistryMoleculeBase (topology)Organic chemistryMathematical analysisMathematicsOrganoboron and organosilicon chemistryN-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic ChemistryCatalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions