(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015-08-27) Akturk, Eser S.; Yap, Glenn P. A.; Theopold, Klaus H.; Eser S. Akturk, Glenn P. A. Yap and Klaus H. Theopold; Akturk, Eser Sahin; Yap, Glenn P. A.; Theopold, Klaus H.
Dinitrogen complexes of the type TpR,RCr–N2–CrTpR,R are not the most labile precursors for Cr(I) chemistry, as they are sterically protected from obligatory associative ligand substitution. A mononuclear alkyne complex – TptBu,MeCr(g2-C2(SiMe3)2) – proved to be much more reactive.