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. 2024 Jun 10;63(24):e202403652.
doi: 10.1002/anie.202403652. Epub 2024 May 8.

Germaaluminocenes-Masked Heterofulvenes

Nadeschda Geibel  1 , Lukas Bührmann  1 , Lena Albers  1 , Marc Schmidtmann  1 , Alexander Weiz  1 , Thomas Müller  1
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Germaaluminocenes-Masked Heterofulvenes

Nadeschda Geibel et al. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. .

Abstract

Germaaluminocenes are formed by salt metathesis reactions of dipotassium germacyclopentadienediides with pentamethylcyclopentadienylaluminum dichloride. The reactivity pattern of these sandwich complexes is determined by the electrophilic central aluminum atom and by the nucleophilic dicoordinated germanium center. Surprisingly, the products formed by reactions with Lewis acids, Lewis bases, amphiphiles and compounds with polar double bonds are those expected from the reaction of a hypothetical aluminagermapentafulvene with these types of reagents. This suggests that germaaluminocenes are synthetic equivalents to these pentafulvenes.

Keywords: aluminum; germanium; germoles; heterofulvenes; sandwich complexes.

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