1H and 13C n.m.r. study of butatriene-bis-tricarbonyliron complexes. Assignment of geometric orientation by comparative J(CCCH) values

A number of substituted butatriene-bis-tricarbonyliron complexes have been studied by ¹³C and ¹H n.m.r. spectroscopy. Long range coupling values, J(CCCH), have confirmed chemical shift results that methyl and phenyl groups assume opposite orientations at the coordinated double bonds with the methyl group preferentially trans to carbon and the phenyl group preferentially trans to iron.