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Published on: July 27, 2022
Ligand properties of boryl ligands in bis-boryl rhodium(III) complexes: a case study
Wiebke Drescher1, Christian Kleeberg1
1Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Hagenring 30, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany. ch.kleeberg@tu-braunschweig.de.
Abstract:
The oxidative addition of five diborane(4) derivatives, symmetrical and unsymmetrical, to [Rh(PMe3)3Cl] was studied. Only for the more electron poor diboron derivatives, B2cat2, B2pin2 and catB-Bpin the resulting octahedral bis-boryl complexes [(PMe3)3Rh(boryl)2Cl] were obtained, while for the more electron rich congeners only the equilibrium oxidative addition (catB-Bdmab) or no significant reaction (pinB-Bdmab) was observed (pin = (OCMe2)2, cat = 1,2-O2C6H4, dmab = 1,2-(NMe)2C6H4). By abstraction of the chlorido ligand with NaBArF (BArF = tetrakis-[3,5-bis-(trifluormethyl)-phenyl]-borat) in the presence of a neutral ligand (L = PMe3, MeCN, MeNC) the corresponding cationic octahedral complexes [(PMe3)3Rh(boryl)2L]+ were obtained. All isolated complexes were fully characterised including single crystal X-ray diffraction and heteronuclear, temperature dependent NMR spectroscopy. Whilst the complexes [(PMe3)3Rh(boryl)2Cl] and [(PMe3)3Rh(boryl)2L]+ show many similarities, their detailed structural and spectroscopic properties depend crucially on the properties of both boryl ligands.
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