{"id":751,"date":"2022-02-04T21:54:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/?p=751"},"modified":"2022-02-04T21:54:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T21:54:52","slug":"time-to-get-cracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/2022\/02\/04\/time-to-get-cracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to get cracking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The smell of cyclopentadiene or more accurately, dicyclopentadiene can turn some stomachs. I actually happen to like the smell of diCp. And the Cp ligand is one of the most iconic ligands in organometallic chemistry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in the olden days, you had to crack the cyclopentadiene, CpH, first before deprotonating to form the Cp anion. Then Roesky changed the game with this paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cpsyn.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-753\" width=\"601\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cpsyn.jpg 801w, https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cpsyn-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cpsyn-768x723.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><figcaption>Roesky NaCp prep<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This prep has everything in it. Molten sodium metal, dicp and CpH. What more could you ask for? I remember making NaCp.DME back in graduate school. What a pain that was. This is so much easier. Just a 1 gram scale of Na metal.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220204_154014-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-755\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220204_154014-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220204_154014-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220204_154014-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220204_154014-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.uni.edu\/chin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20220204_154014-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smell of cyclopentadiene or more accurately, dicyclopentadiene can turn some stomachs. I actually happen to like the smell of diCp. And the Cp ligand is one of the most iconic ligands in organometallic chemistry. Back in the olden days, you had to crack the cyclopentadiene, CpH, first before deprotonating to form the Cp anion. 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