Selective mono- and dimetallation of a group 3 sandwich complex†
Antonio J.
Martínez-Martínez, 
a
Alan R.
Kennedy,
b
Felipe
Fantuzzi,
c
Rian D.
Dewhurst,
c
Charles T.
O’Hara,
b
Holger
Braunschweig
*c
and
Robert E.
Mulvey
*b
a
Alan R.
Kennedy,
b
Felipe
Fantuzzi,
c
Rian D.
Dewhurst,
c
Charles T.
O’Hara,
b
Holger
Braunschweig
*c
and
Robert E.
Mulvey
*b
Abstract
The scandium Cp/COT hybrid sandwich compound [(η5-C5H5)Sc(η8-C8H8)] is resistant to metallation via conventional alkyllithium and lithium amide bases. In this work, clean, selective, stoichiometric and high-yielding mono- and dimetallation is accomplished using tandem trans-metal-trapping (TMT) involving LiTMP and iBu2AlTMP with deprotonation occurring selectively at the Cp and Cp/COT rings respectively, providing the first examples of selective metallation of a sandwich complex featuring a group 3 element.
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