ISSN:
0009-2940
Keywords:
Rhodium(I) phosphane complexes
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14-Electron intermediates
;
MO theory, applied
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Chemistry
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Inorganic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Bis(di-tert-butylphosphanyl)methane Complexes of Rhodium: Geometry, Electronic Structure, and Derivatives of the 14-Electron Fragment [Rh(dtbpm)Cl]. Molecular Structure of Rh(dtbpm)Cl(PMe3)14-Electron fragments [M(PR3)2X] (M = Rh, Ir, X = halogen etc.) are considered to be an important class of highly reactive, coordinatively unsaturated intermediates in many metal-induced stoichiometric or catalytic transformations of organic substrates. As available theoretical data suggest a slightly preferred T-shaped groundstate geometry with a less symmetric cis rather than the usually implied trans phosphane arrangement for such tricoordinate d8-ML3-type systems with monodentate phosphanes PR3, the chemistry of η2-diphosphanylmethane complexes of rhodium with four-membered RhPCP-chelate rings and thus with enforced cis phosphane coordination and anomalously small cis P - Rh - P angles has been studied by theory and by experiment. MO calculations (EH) have been performed both for the model 14-electron system [Rh(dhpm)Cl] (dhpm = diphosphanylmethane, H2P - CH2 - PH2) and for the experimentally accessible fragment [Rh(dhbpm)Cl], where dtbpm is bis(di-tert-butylphosphanyl)-methane, (tBu)2P - CH2 - P(tBu)2. The electronic and geometric structure of these species is described. Employing the unusual ligand dtbpm, tailor-made for stabilizing mononuclear η2- and destabilizing dinuclear μ-diphosphanylmethane coordination, the chloro-bridged dimer [Rh(dtbpm)Cl]2, has been synthesized. In agreement with steric and electronic considerations, its chemistry is dominated by a facile dissociation to monomeric (presumably solvent coordinated) fragments [Rh(dtbpm)Cl], even in benzene, as suggested by molecular mass determinations. Accordingly, by using [Rh(dtbpm)Cl]2 as a starting material, a series of sterically very congested but nevertheless mononuclear, square-planar complexes Rh(dtbpm)Cl(L) (L = CO, PMe3, PPh3, PCy3, pyridine, acrylonitrile) with chelating dtbpm could be readily prepared and fully characterized. The relative stability of these potential alternative precursors of a [Rh(dtbpm)Cl] intermediate towards dissociation of ligands L is reported. The molecular structure of Rh(dtbpm)Cl(PMe3) as the first representative of this class of compounds has been determined by X-ray crystallography.
Additional Material:
6 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cber.19921250212
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