A Mixed-Valent and High-Spin Vanadium Phosphide
Accessing high-spin configurations of transition metal phosphides defines a dividing line that prevents common properties of solid-state materials from being replicated within multiple-bonded molecular analogs. Here, we report the synthesis of a VIII phosphaethynolate complex, [(pyrNdipp)2V(PCO)] (2) in a halide metathesis with Na(OCP). Exposure of 2 to Lewis-basic ligands induces a one-electron r
