Facile synthesis of amino-functionalised cyclopentadienyl sodium compounds and subsequent formation of rhodium complexes: Proton—deuterium exchange for the sodium salts

Abstract

Synthesis, isolation and characterisation of sodium salts of amino-substituted cyclopentadienyl compounds was carried out for the first time: these can be made on a large scale and stored easily, thus facilitating easy manipulation and applications. Rhodium derivatives, including Rh( η 5 -C 5 H 4 )CH(CH 2 CH 2 ) 2 NMe(coe) 2 (coe = cyclo-octene), were synthesised, of which the crystal structure is reported.