Molybdenum alkynyls as alkynyl transfer reagentsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Experimental section and crystal data for 2 and 3. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b1/b110864f/

Abstract

Molybdenum alkynyl complexes [Mo(C identical to CR)(eta 3-allyl)(CO)2(phen)] feature long Mo-Calkynyl bond distances and propensity to undergo the cleavage of these bonds, a property that allowed their use as acetylide transfer reagents.