
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Degeest, DJ 
A1  - Steel, PJ 
T1  - Cyclometallated Compounds. IX. Reactions of 2-Benzoylpyridine With Rhodium(III) Trichloride
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1995
VL  - 48
IS  - 9
SP  - 1573
EP  - 1585
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9951573 
N2  - X-Ray crystallography and n.m.r. spectroscopy have been used to study the products of reactions between rhodium(III) trichloride and 2-benzoylpyridine under various reaction conditions. X-Ray crystal structures have shown that the initial product of reaction in refluxing ethanol is a centrosymmetric isomer, as previously proposed, but that this undergoes aqueous hydrolysis to a C2-symmetric isomer, rather than the previously proposed C2v isomer. Reaction in refluxing 2-methoxyethanol produces an unusual complex with one C-N cyclometallated ligand and one N-O coordinated ligand. In Me2SO, the non-cyclometallated ligand of this latter compound undergoes solvolysis to produce a complex containing two Me2SO molecules, one coordinated through oxygen and the other through sulfur. The X-ray crystal structure of this compound is also reported. 
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