New insight into the dynamic behaviour of...

New insight into the dynamic behaviour of manganese ketene complexes: evidence for the scrambling of a carbene moiety over carbonyl ligandsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: details of syntheses and spectral characterisation of the new complexes. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b1/b109218a

Abstract

The carbonyl of the ketene ligand in manganese complexes of the type RCp(CO)2Mn[η2-R′(Ph)CCO] exchanges rapidly (NMR time-scale) with the CO ligands though a process that involves scrambling of a carbene moiety over the three carbonyl environments.