Unique molecular geometries of reduced 4- and 5-coordinate zinc complexes stabilised by diiminopyridine ligand

Terry Chu, Lee Belding, Prashanth K. Poddutoori, Art van der Est, Travis Dudding, Ilia Korobkov, Georgii I. Nikonov
2016 Dalton Transactions  
Stepwise reduction of the diiminopyridine complex dimpyrZnCl2 by KC8 leads to compounds dimpyrZnCl (2), dimpyrZnCl(DMAP) (3) and dimpyrZn(DMAP)2 (4) having unusual square-planar and see-saw geometries.
doi:10.1039/c6dt02001a pmid:27488247 fatcat:up3nzkqbxvczhjikoiaaikz7i4