Novel Structures and Pauson−Khand Activities of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Dicobalt Complexes

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N-Heterocyclic carbene derivatives of dicobalt octacarbonyl have been synthesized for the first time and tested in the Pauson−Khand reaction. Two complexes with both NHC and PPh 3 ligands represent the only examples of structurally characterized dicobalt hexacarbonyl complexes with two different non-CO ligands.