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Detection of Rigid Rotamers in Disubstituted Cyclopentadienylcobalt Complexes
Author(s) -
Hofmann Werner,
Buchner Wolfgang,
Werner Helmut
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.197707951
Subject(s) - conformational isomerism , ring (chemistry) , cyclopentadienyl complex , rotation (mathematics) , chemistry , crystallography , metal , stereochemistry , geometry , molecule , mathematics , organic chemistry , catalysis
Rotation of the cyclopentadienyl ring about the metal‐ring bond in complexes such as (1) depends upon the substituents R and R′. The first rigid rotamers of this kind have been detected in (1a) , RR′ t Bu; (1b) , RR′iPr, exhibits free rotation probably as a result of a “gear mechanism”.