Accessing the main-group metal formyl scaffold through CO-activation in beryllium hydride complexes

Hadlington, Terrance J.; Szilvasi, Tibor

Accessing the main-group metal formyl scaffold through CO-activation in beryllium hydride complexes

dc.contributor.author	Hadlington, Terrance J.
dc.contributor.author	Szilvasi, Tibor
dc.contributor.other	Technical University of Munich
dc.contributor.other	University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned	2023-09-28T19:11:37Z
dc.date.available	2023-09-28T19:11:37Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	Carbon monoxide (CO) is an indispensable C1 building block. For decades this abundant gas has been employed in hydroformylation and Pausen-Khand catalysis, amongst many related chemistries, where a single, non-coupled CO fragment is delivered to an organic molecule. Despite this, organometallic species which react with CO to yield C1 products remain rare, and are elusive for main group metal complexes. Here, we describe a range of amido-beryllium hydride complexes, and demonstrate their reactivity towards CO, in its mono-insertion into the Be-H bonds of these species. The small radius of the Be2+ ion in conjunction with the non-innocent pendant phosphine moiety of the developed ligands leads to a unique beryllium formyl complex with an ylidic P-C-CO fragment, whereby the carbon centre, remarkably, datively binds Be. This, alongside reactivity toward carbon dioxide, sheds light on the insertion chemistry of the Be-H bond, complimenting the long-known chemistry of the heavier Alkaline Earth hydrides. Stoichiometric carbon monoxide insertion processes leading to metal-formyl complexes are scarce, even for transition metals. Here, light is shed on the underexplored chemistry of beryllium hydrides leading to a stable example of a main group metal-formyl complex.	en_US
dc.format.medium	electronic
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Hadlington, T. J., & Szilvási, T. (2022). Accessing the main-group metal formyl scaffold through CO-activation in beryllium hydride complexes. In Nature Communications (Vol. 13, Issue 1). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28095-0
dc.identifier.doi	10.1038/s41467-022-28095-0
dc.identifier.orcid	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4131-8870
dc.identifier.uri	https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/11013
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Nature Portfolio
dc.rights.license	Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	CO HOMOLOGATION
dc.subject	CARBON-MONOXIDE
dc.subject	SELECTIVE FORMATION
dc.subject	ACTIVATION
dc.subject	REDUCTION
dc.subject	REACTIVITY
dc.subject	CHEMISTRY
dc.subject	MECHANISM
dc.subject	BOND
dc.subject	Multidisciplinary Sciences
dc.title	Accessing the main-group metal formyl scaffold through CO-activation in beryllium hydride complexes	en_US
dc.type	Article
dc.type	text