Hiromi Tobita and colleagues look into the reactions of bis(silyl)hydrido molybdenum and tungsten complexes in this Dalton Transactions Hot article. They were able to generate a 16-electron species, which when reacted with nitriles led to hydrosilylation of their CN triple bonds to give N-silylimine complexes, even at room temperature.
Synthesis and characterisation of hydrido molybdenum and tungsten complexes having a hemilabile tridentate Si,Si,O-ligand: observation of stepwise hydrosilylation of a nitrile to form an N-silylimine on the metal centre
Takashi Komuro, Rockshana Begum, Rikima Ono and Hiromi Tobita
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01047B, Paper
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