Financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and by the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Projects(G1999064800)is gratefully acknowledged.
Treatment of 1,3-di- t -butylcyclopentadiene with rhodium trichloride in EtOH leads to the formation of binuclear half-sandwich complex [Cp t RhCl( μ -Cl)] 2 (1) (Cp t = η 5- t Bu 2C 5H 3) which reacts with trimethy...