The Elusive Tripodal Tris(2-pyridyl)borate Ligand: A Strongly Coordinating Tetraarylborate

The Elusive Tripodal Tris(2-pyridyl)borate Ligand: A Strongly Coordinating Tetraarylborate:

Chem. Commun., 2012, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC33059H, Communication

Chengzhong Cui, Roger Lalancette, Frieder Jaekle
Tris(2-pyridylborate)s are introduced as a new robust and tunable "scorpionate"-type ligand family. A facile synthesis of this hitherto unknown ligand and its complexation to Fe(II) are described; the optical and...