The elusive terminal imido of manganese(v)

Abstract

At last, terminal imido complexes of manganese(V), the postulated intermediates in aziridination and amination reactions, have been prepared. The structurally well-defined (imido)manganese(V) corroles, 2 and 3, are easily synthesized from manganese(III) corroles with organic azides under photolysis conditions and react with electron-rich nucleophiles such as organic phosphanes.