- Dihydrogen addition in a dinuclear rare-earth metal hydride complex supported by a metalated TREN ligand.
Dihydrogen addition in a dinuclear rare-earth metal hydride complex supported by a metalated TREN ligand.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2011-10-12)
Ajay Venugopal, Waldemar Fegler, Thomas P Spaniol, Laurent Maron, Jun Okuda
PMID21985245
ABSTRACT
The dinuclear lutetium dihydride dication supported by metalated tripodal ligands undergoes facile hydrogenolysis with H(2) to form a trihydride dication. Molecular orbital analysis shows that the LUMO is a bonding Lu···Lu orbital that is poised to activate dihydrogen.
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