The solid state crystal structures and variable temperature solution state NMR spectra of metallocene alkyl and trimethylsilyl substituted amides provide insite into the role of ground state agostic interactions in CH-bond activation reactions.  Examples of these compounds with short M...C contact distances and the resulting changes in CH distances and coupling constants will be be used to develop a physical model for these low d-electron count metallocenes

Role of agostic ground states in activation CH-bonds

248th National Meeting (2014)

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