Trapping an unusual pentacoordinate carbon atom in a neutral trialuminum complex†
Nery
Villegas-Escobar, 
*a
Javier
Martínez,
b
Ricardo A.
Matute,
ac
Constantin G.
Daniliuc,
e
René S.
Rojas
*d
*a
Javier
Martínez,
b
Ricardo A.
Matute,
ac
Constantin G.
Daniliuc,
e
René S.
Rojas
*d
Abstract
A neutral trialuminum complex incorporates a pentacoordinate carbon through a methylidene bridge linking the three metal atoms. The rigid electron-deficient Al3 core stabilizes the hypercoordinate carbon atom resulting in the shortest equatorial Al–C distance reported for such an Al3-(μ3-CH2) unit.
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