Synthesis and Characterization of Bis(Fulva1ene)- Divanadium and the Crystal Structure of its Oxidation Product, Bis(Fulvalene)Bis(Acetonitrile)Divanadium(III)- (V-V) Bis(Hexafluorophosphate)-Acetonitrile (1/1)

Authors

James Smart, University of California, Berkeley, California
Barry Pinsky, University of California, Berkeley, California
Michael Fredrich, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Victor Day, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Date of this Version

7-18-1979

Comments

Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society / 101:15 / July 18, 1979.

Abstract

Because of the current interest in the structure and reactivity of coordinatively unsaturated metallocenes and the formally analogous metallofulvalene derivatives, we wish to report our initial synthetic, physical, and X-ray structural studies of the bis( fulva1ene)divanadium system.