The collaborative efforts of the Bart and Schatz groups, from Purdue University and Northwestern University, respectively, have led to the publication of a new manuscript in the journal Organometallics. Congratulations to our CSSM members on a job well done! The publication focuses on the synthesis and characterization of the first series of tellurium and selenium complexes featuring an η5-cyclopentadienyl ligand. Each compound was characterized by X-ray crystallography, revealing similar η5-coordination with little distortion from an idealized half-sandwich
geometry, presumably from the remaining lone pair on tellurium and selenium. Several of the compounds display rapid decomposition at room temperature, extruding a phenylated cyclopentadiene and the respective diphenylchalcogenide. The nature of bonding within these complexes was investigated through DFT methods and found to be primarily ionic in nature.
New publication titled, “Late to the Party: Synthesis and Characterization of Tellurium and Selenium Half-Sandwich Complexes”
