Bicyclic guanidinate compounds of magnesium and their activity as pre-catalysts in the Tishchenko reaction

Benjamin M. Day, N.E. Mansfield, Martyn P. Coles, Peter B. Hitchcock

Chemical Communications · 2011 · 65 citations · 33 references

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Abstract

A synthetic route to magnesium guanidinate compounds that avoids ligand redistribution is reported; selected derivatives are active pre-catalysts in the dimerization of aldehydes.

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