Synthesis, structural studies and ligand influence on the stability of aryl-NHC stabilised trimethylaluminium complexes

• Main Authors: Wu, Melissa M., Gill, Arran M., Lu, Yunpeng, Laura, Falivene, Li, Yongxin, Rakesh, Ganguly, Luigi, Cavallo, Felipe, García
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Ligands; Trimethylaluminium
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82664; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40280
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Treatment of a series of aromatic NHCs (IMes, SIMes, IPr and SIPr) with trimethylaluminium produced their corresponding Lewis acid–base adducts: IMes·AlMe3 (1), SIMes·AlMe3 (2), IPr·AlMe3 (3), and SIPr·AlMe3 (4). These complexes expand the few known examples of saturated NHC stabilised Group 13 comp...