Synthesis of lithium corrole and its use as a reagent for the preparation of cyclopentadienyl zirconium and titanium corrole complexes.

Heather L Buckley, Wayne A Chomitz, Beata Koszarna, Mariusz Tasior, Daniel T Gryko, Penelope J Brothers, John Arnold

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 2012 Nov 11

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The lithium corrole complex (Mes(2)(p-OMePh)corrole)Li(3)·6THF (1·6THF), prepared via deprotonation of the free-base corrole with lithium amide, acts as precursor for the preparation of cyclopentadienyl zirconium(iv) corrole (2) and pentamethylcyclopentadienyl titanium(IV) corrole (3).

Citation

Heather L Buckley, Wayne A Chomitz, Beata Koszarna, Mariusz Tasior, Daniel T Gryko, Penelope J Brothers, John Arnold. Synthesis of lithium corrole and its use as a reagent for the preparation of cyclopentadienyl zirconium and titanium corrole complexes. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 2012 Nov 11;48(87):10766-8