Almost 40 years after Schrock and Clark’s synthesis of a tungsten ‘yl-ene-yne’ complex in 1978, scientists in the US have made the first nitrogen analogue: a chromium nitrido–imido–amido complex.
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A complex with nitrogen single, double, and triple bonds to the same chromium atom: synthesis, structure, and reactivity
E P Beaumier et al, Chem. Sci., 2016, DOI: 10.1039/c5sc04608d
