Dengmengfei Xiao

Research Article Dr. Ming Yu Jin, Shenzhen Grubbs Institute and Department of Chemistry, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055 China These authors contributed equally to this work.

Mononuclear Pd(I) species are putative intermediates in Pd-catalyzed reactions, but our knowledge about them is limited due to difficulties in accessing them. Herein, we report the isolation of a Pd(I) amido complex, [(BINAP)Pd(NHArTrip)] (BINAP = 2,2′-bis(diphenylphosphino)-1,1′-binaphthalene, ArTrip = 2,6-bis(2′,4′,6′-triisopropylphenyl)phenyl), from the reaction of (BINAP)PdCl2 with LiNHArTrip.

Abstract In contrast to naturally occurring F2, O2 and N2, diatomic C2 is an intriguing species that has only been observed indirectly in the gas phase, and because of its high reactivity has eluded isolation in the condensed phase. It has previously been stabilized in L→C2←L compounds but the bonding situation of the central C2 in this motif differs remarkably from that of free C2.