
%0 Journal Article
%A Baker, Murray V. 
%A Field, Leslie D. 
%T Cyclometallation Reactions in the Fe(dprpe)<emph tye="8">2</emph> System [dprpe = 1,2-Bis(dipropylphosphino)ethane].
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 2000/02/04
%V 52
%N 11
%P 1005-1012
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH99057
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH99057 
%X Thermal elimination of methane from cis-FeH(CH3)(dprpe)2 &#91;dprpe = 1,2-bis(dipropylphosphino)ethane&#93; or photochemical elimination of dihydrogen from FeH2(dprpe)2 leads to the formation of three cyclometallation products. The products are believed to arise via a pathway in which the coordinatively unsaturated intermediate Fe(dprpe)2 undergoes intramolecular activation of a C&#8211;H bond of a dprpe methyl group. 1H and 31P n.m.r. spectroscopy were used to characterize the products and explore the reactions leading to their formation. 
