Cationic magnesium hydride [MgH]<sup>+</sup> stabilized by an NNNN-type macrocycle

Lara E. Lemmerz, Debabrata Mukherjee, Thomas P. Spaniol, Anthony Wong, Gabriel Ménard, Laurent Maron, Jun Okuda

Chemical Communications · 2019 · 32 citations · 65 references

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A magnesium hydride cation [(L)MgH]<sup>+</sup> supported by a macrocyclic ligand (L = Me<sub>4</sub>TACD; 1,4,7,10-tetramethyl-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane) has been shown to react with Lewis acids as well as with unsaturated substrates including pyridine.

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