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Accessing Valuable Ligand Supports for Transition Metals: A Modified, Intermediate Scale Preparation of 1,2,3,4,5-Pentamethylcyclopentadiene
Published on: March 20, 2017
Two 18ē Ti(IV) eta5-Cp-tris(sec-amido)-type complexes derived from 1H-imidazol-2-yl side-chain functionalized
Xiaowu Wang1, Wanli Nie, Fang Ge
1North-West University of Xi'an, College of Chemistry and Material Science, Taibai Bei Avenue 229, Xi'an 710069, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Achiral {2-[2-(eta(5)-cyclopentadienyl)-2-methylpropyl]-1H-imidazolyl-kappaN(1)}bis(N,N-diethylamido-kappaN)titanium(IV), [Ti(C(4)H(10)N)(2)(C(12)H(14)N(2))], (I), and closely related racemic (SR)-{2-[(eta(5)-cyclopentadienyl)(phenyl)methyl]-1H-imidazolyl-kappaN(1)}bis(N,N-diethylamido-kappaN)titanium(IV), [Ti(C(4)H(10)N)(2)(C(15)H(12)N(2))], (II), have been prepared by direct reactions of Ti(NEt(2))(4) and the corresponding 1H-imidazol-2-yl side-chain functionalized cyclopentadienes. In compound (II), there are two crystallographically independent molecules of very similar geometries connected by a noncrystallographic pseudosymmetry operation akin to a 2(1) screw axis. All Ti-ligating N atoms in both (I) and (II) are in planar environments, which is indicative of an additional N-->Ti ppi-dpi donation. This fact and the 18ē nature of both (I) and (II) are additionally supported by quantum chemical single-point density functional theory (DFT) computations.
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