Check out the new @bakewellgroup.bsky.social paper, published in @daltontrans.rsc.org!
A real labour of love for me, when I turned up Clare asked me to "make a few more ligands", advice I took and ran with.
See inside for all you could ever wish to know about making bulky amidine ligands...
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Amidinates ([R1NC(R2)NR3]−) are versatile and ubiquitous ligands in inorganic and main group chemistry, due to their anionic, bidentate nature and easy tunability. Herein we present the synthesis of 2...