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[(DPEPhos)(bcp)Cu]PF6: A General and Broadly Applicable Copper-Based Photoredox Catalyst
Published on: May 21, 2019
Dibromido(4,7-diazadecane-1,10-di-amine)-copper(II)
Gervas E Assey1, Ray J Butcher, Yilma Gultneh
1Department of Chemistry, Howard University, 525 College Street NW, Washington DC 20059, USA.
Abstract:
In the title compound, [CuBr(2)(C(8)H(22)N(4))], the Cu(II) atom is six-coordinate forming a distorted octa-hedral complex and is bonded to two axial bromide anions and four equatorial nitro-gen donors. The equatorial Cu-N bond distances range from 2.005 (8) to 2.046 (8) Å while the axial Cu-Br distances are 2.8616 (17) and 2.9402 (17) Å, thus the six-coordinate Cu complex shows the usual Jahn-Teller distortion. All amine hydrogen atoms participate in either inter- or intra-molecular hydrogen bonding to the Br anions.
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