The Editor's Introduction to the Review by Wang and Robinson in This Issue of Organometallics

摘要

The molecule on the cover of the present issue is the sodium salt of a cyclotrigallene dianion,1,whose preparation and structural characterization were reported in 1995 in a JACS communication by Gregory H.Robinson,the senior author of the review in this issue,and his co-workers.It was the first example of a compound that contains a planar ring of three gallium atoms.Our cover molecule,isolated as red-black crystals,was prepared by the reaction of(2,6-dimesitylphenyl-)gallium dichloride with metallic sodium in diethyl ether.