Novel inorganic heterocycles from dimetalated carboranylamidinates
Nicole Harmgarth1, Daniel Gräsing, Peter Dröse
1Chemisches Institut der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany. frank.edelmann@ovgu.de.
Abstract:
Mono- and dianionic carboranylamidinates are readily available in one-pot reactions directly from o-carborane (1). In situ-monolithiation of 1 followed by treatment with N,N'-diisopropylcarbodiimide, (i)PrN=C=N(i)Pr, or N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, CyN=C=NCy, provided the lithium carboranylamidinates (o-C2B10H10C(NH(i)Pr)(=N(i)Pr)-κ(2)C,N)Li(DME) (2a) and (o-C2B10H10C(NH(i)Cy)(=N(i)Cy)-κ(2)C,N)Li(THF)2 (2b). Controlled hydrolysis of 2a,b afforded the free carboranylamidines o-C2B10H11C(NH(i)R)(=N(i)R) (3a: R = (i)Pr, 3b: R = Cy). The first dimetalated carboranylamidinates, o-C2B10H10C(N(i)Pr)(=N(i)Pr)Li2(DME)2 (4a) (DME = 1,2-dimethoxyethane) and o-C2B10H10C(N(i)Pr)(=N(i)Pr)Li2(THF)4 (4b), were prepared in high yield (83% yield) directly from 1 using a simple one-pot synthetic protocol. Treatment of 4b with 2 equiv. of Me3SiCl afforded the disilylated derivative o-C2B10H10-κ(2)C,N-[C(N(i)PrSiMe3)(=N(i)Pr)]SiMe3 (5). Dianionic 4b also served as an excellent precursor for novel inorganic heterocycles incorporating the closo-1,2-C2B10H10 cage, including the unsymmetrical distannene [o-C2B10H10C(N(i)Pr)(=N(i)Pr)-κ(2)C,N]Sn=Sn[((i)PrN)2C(n)Bu]2 (6) and the azaphosphole derivative [o-C2B10H10C(N(i)Pr)(=N(i)Pr)-κ(2)C,N]PPh (7). Surprisingly, it was found that the synthesis of new inorganic ring systems from dianionic carboranylamidinates can also be achieved by employing only 1 equiv. of n-butyllithium in the generation of the anionic carboranylamidinate intermediates. Using this straightforward one-pot synthetic protocol, the Group 14 metallacycles [o-C2B10H10C(NCy)(=NCy)-κ(2)C,N]SiR2 (R = Cl (8), Me (9), Ph (10)) and [o-C2B10H10C(NCy)([=NCy)-κ(2)C,N]GeCl2 (11) have become accessible. The same synthetic strategy could be successfully adapted to prepare the corresponding Group 4 metallocene derivatives Cp2Ti[o-C2B10H10C(NCy)(=NCy)-κ(2)C,N] (12) and Cp2Zr[o-C2B10H10C(NCy)(=NCy)-κ(2)C,N] (13). The molecular structures of 2b, 3b, 4b, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, and 13 were confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
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