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SUBMITTER: Findlay NJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3662396 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20101101 44
The first crown-tetracarbene complex of Ni(II) has been prepared, and its crystal structure determined. The complex can be reduced by Na/Hg, with an uptake of two electrons. The reduced complex reductively cleaves arenesulfonamides, including those derived from secondary aliphatic amines, and effects Birch reduction of anthracenes as well as reductive cleavage of stilbene oxides. Computational studies show that the orbital that receives electrons upon reduction of the complex 2 is predominantly ...[more]