Cover Feature: A Mechanistic Study on Reactions of Group 13 Diyls LM with Cp*SbX2: From Stibanyl Radicals to Antimony Hydrides (Chem. Eur. J. 59/2020)

Oxidative addition of Cp*SbX2 to LGa selectively yielded stibanyl radicals [L(X)Ga]2Sb⋅, whereas analogous reactions with LIn surprisingly gave stibanes [L(X)In]2SbH. Computational calculations revealed that the indium hydrides are formed by hydrogen atom abstraction from the as-formed radicals ([L(X)In]2Sb⋅ and Cp*⋅), whereas a concerted β-H elimination starting from [L(Cl)M]2SbCp* is unlikely. More information can be found in the Full Paper by S. Schulz et al. on page 13390.