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Synthesis of a Thiol Building Block for the Crystallization of a Semiconducting Gyroidal Metal-sulfur Framework
Published on: April 9, 2018
Synthesis of coordinatively unsaturated mesityliron thiolate complexes and their reactions with elemental sulfur
Takayoshi Hashimoto1, Yasuhiro Ohki, Kazuyuki Tatsumi
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, and Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.
Abstract:
The reactions of Fe(2)Mes(4) (1; Mes = mesityl) with bulky thiols, namely, HSDmp (Dmp = 2,6-dimesitylphenyl), HSDxp (Dxp = 2,6-dixylylphenyl), and HSBtip [Btip = 2,6-(2,4,6-(i)Pr(3)C(6)H(2))(2)C(6)H(3)], provided a series of iron(II) mesityl complexes bearing bulky thiolate ligands. These iron complexes are the thiolate-bridged dinuclear complexes Fe(2)Mes(2)(mu-SAr)(mu-Mes) (2a, Ar = Dmp; 2b, Ar = Dxp), the 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) adducts (DME)Fe(SAr)(Mes) (3a, Ar = Dmp; 3b, Ar = Dxp), the mixed-valence Fe(I)-Fe(II) dinuclear complexes (Mes)Fe(mu-SAr)(mu-S Ar) Fe (4a, Ar = Dmp; 4b, Ar = Dxp), and a low-coordinate mononuclear complex (B tipS) Fe(Mes) (5). An [Fe(8)S(7)] cluster [Fe(4)S(3)(SDmp)](2)(mu-SDmp)(2)(mu-SMes)(mu(6)-S) (6), the core structure of which is topologically relevant to that of the FeMo-cofactor of nitrogenase, was obtained from the reaction of 3a or 4a with S(8). The mu-SMes ligand in 6 is formed via insertion of a sulfur atom into the Fe-C(Mes) bond. The formation of cluster 6 from 3a or 4a demonstrates that organoiron complexes are applicable as precursors for iron-sulfur clusters.
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