Magnesium(I) goes two-coordinate

摘要

Since they were first developed at Monash University in 2007, magnesium(I) dimers (LMg-MgL) have not only generated considerable fundamental interest in the chemistry community, but have also found a variety of applications as soluble, selective and safe reducing agents in organic and organometallic synthetic protocols. While all previously reported systems have been three- or four-coordinate at the magnesium centres, two-coordinate dimers are seen as having the potential to be markedly more electrophilic, and thus more reactive, than their higher coordinate counterparts.