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Dalton Trans., 2009, 10219 - 10222, DOI: 10.1039/b918971h

First neodymium(III) alkyl-carbene complex based on bis(iminophosphoranyl) ligands

Antoine Buchard, Audrey Auffrant, Louis Ricard, Xavier F. Le Goff, Rachel H. Platel, Charlotte K. Williams and Pascal Le Floch

Serendipitous deprotonation of bis(iminophosphoranyl)methanide Nd(III) complexes afforded the first alkyl-carbene neodymium complex. Due to the presence of structurally similar methanide and methandiide fragments, this complex features, as evidenced by X-ray crystallographic analysis, Nd–C single and multiple bonds.

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