Guanidines and Amidines

The simplest [3 + 3] reactions in the pyridine series involve reaction of o-chloropyridinecarboxylic acid derivatives with three-atom fragments such as urea, thiourea(s), amidines and guanidines, e.g. (240) (241). Examples are known mainly in... 

Advances in the Coordination Chemistry of Amidinate and Guanidinate Ligands ... 

A. Amidinate and guanidinate complexes of main group metals 188... 

The general coordination modes of amidinate and guanidinate (R = NR 2) ligands are shown in Scheme 4. Both ligands display a rich coordination chemistry in which both chelating and bridging coordination modes can be achieved. By far the most common coordination mode is the chelating type A. 

Amidinate- and guanidinate-substituted boron halides are normally prepared using the two standard synthetic routes, i.e., salt-metathesis between suitable... 

Little progress has been made in the field of Group 15 metal amidinate and guanidinate derivatives. Only very recently some exciting results have been reported which demonstrate that this area may hold some real surprises and merits further exploration. It was found that amidinato ligands are capable to stabilize novel amidodiarsenes. Reduction of the four-membered ring As(III)... 

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