Redox-Active Sulphur Diimide Ligand A
nio
n radicals of R&mi
nus;N=S=N&mi
nus;R have
never bee
n isolated or structurally characterized. I
n their Full Paper o
n nces:https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201604340">page 1278 ff., N P. Gritsa
n, R. T. Boer&
eacute;, P. W. Roesky, A. V. Zibarev, S. N. Ko
nche
nko et al. report the first Cp*
2L
n complexes (L
n = Sm, Eu, Yb; R = NSiMe
3) of sulphur diimides a
nd demo
nstrate by exhaustive characterisatio
n (X-ray diffractio
n, EPR, UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy, SQUID mag
netometry a
nd rigorous ab i
nitio computatio
nal methods) that these powerful reduci
ng age
nts tra
nsfer a
n electro
n to the coordi
nated thiazyl liga
nd. A bra
nd
new world of redox
no
n-i
nnoce
nt liga
nds has thus emerged o
n the horizo
n.