Exhaustive Oxidative Decarbonylation of Metal Carbonyls by Light and Oxygen: The Example of (η<sup>5</sup>‐C<sub>5</sub>Me<sub>5</sub>)ReO<sub>3</sub>

Wolfgang A. Herrmann, Ricardo Serrano, Hans Bock

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1984 · 104 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

The trioxorhenium complex 3—lemon yellow, air-stable, crystalline—is surprisingly formed on photolysis of the tricarbonylrhenium complex 1 in THF. In complete absence of oxygen the initial product is 2, which (unlike analogous manganese complexes) is oxidized by air to 3.

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