Photoreaction of benzocyclobutadienetricarbonyliron with pentacarbonyliron
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 3,p. 93b-94
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c3974000093b
Abstract
Irradiation of 1—2a(6a)-η-benzocyclobutadienetricarbonyliron (5) in the presence of Fe(CO)5 gives a mixture of 1—2a(6a)-η : 3-6-η-benzocyclobutadienebistricarbonyliron (6), 1—3a(7a)-η-ferraindenebistricarbonyiiron (3) 1—3a(7a)-η : 4–7-η-ferraindenebistricarbonyliron (4). 1–3a(7a)-η-ferra-2H-indenetricarbonyliron (7), and 1–3a(7a)-η-ferra-2H-indenetricarbonyliron (8); complex (6) is formed via diene-type co-ordination of the four ring π-electrons in (5), while complexes (3), (4) and (7), (8) result from cyclobutadiene ring opening and insertion of an Fe(CO)3 unit.Keywords
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