A Zirconium Hydrazide as a Synthon for a Metallanitrene Equivalent: Atom‐by‐Atom Assembly of [EN₂]²⁻ Units (E=S, Se) by Chalcogen‐Atom Transfer in the Coordination Sphere of a Transition Metal

Abstract

Piece by piece: Hydrazides at zirconium centers undergo facile NN bond cleavage and react as equivalents for metallanitrenes, thus allowing the atom-by-atom assembly of bridging dinitridosulfate(IV) and dinitridoselenate(IV) ligands (see scheme; TBS=tBuMe2Si).