April 1, 2025
Author(s)
Valeriy Cherepakhin, Van K. Do, Anthony J. Chavez, Jacob Kelber, Ryan Klein, Eric Novak, Yongqiang Cheng, Xiaoping Wang, Craig Brown, Travis J. Williams
The authors report the structure, reactivity, and catalytic utility of a triiridium complex, [Ir3H6(μ3-H)(PN)3]2+ (2-H, PN = (2-pyridyl)CH2PBut2). Despite its unusual stability to unsaturated organics, electrophiles, and even CF3SO3D, they find that