In this Dalton Transactions ‘Hot Article’ Jason Lynam, John Slattery and colleagues from the University of York provide insight, through experimental and theoretical investigation, to the intramolecular acetate-mediated formation of ruthenium vinylidene complexes. They show that acetate is able to lower the energy of hydrogen migration in the formation of vinylidene complexes from their alkyne tautomers. This is an example of a Ligand-Assisted Proton Shuttle (LAPS) mechanism. Read more in this Hot Article.
Insights into the intramolecular acetate-mediated formation of ruthenium vinylidene complexes: a ligand-assisted proton shuttle (LAPS) mechanism
Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00431F, Paper
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