Room-Temperature-Stable Magnesium Electride via Ni(II) Reduction
Herein, we report the synthesis of highly reduced bipyridyl magnesium complexes and the first example of a stable organic magnesium electride supported by quantum mechanical computations and X-ray diffraction. These complexes serve as unconventional homogeneous reductants due to their high solubilit...
Published in: | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
Other Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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American Chemical Society
2022
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Online Access: | https://depot.ceon.pl/handle/123456789/21625 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c01807 |
Summary: | Herein, we report the synthesis of highly reduced bipyridyl magnesium complexes and the first example of a stable organic magnesium electride supported by quantum mechanical computations and X-ray diffraction. These complexes serve as unconventional homogeneous reductants due to their high solubility, modular redox potentials, and formation of insoluble, non-coordinating byproducts. The applicability of these reductants is showcased by accessing low-valent (bipy)2Ni(0) species that are challenging to access otherwise. ICIQ and FEDER/MCI −AEI/PGC2018-096839-B-I00 China Scholarship Council (CSC) for a postdoctoral fellowship, European Union’s Horizon 2020 under the Marie Curie PREBIST grant agreement 754558 AEI for a predoctoral fellowship (PRE2019-089145) Research Council of Norway (grant nos. 300769 and 262695) Tromsø Research Foundation (grant no. TFS2016KHH) NordForsk (grant no. 85378) Sigma2 (Project nos. nn9330k and nn4654k) National Science Centre, Poland 2020/39/B/ST4/02022 |
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