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Shota Tanaka1, Shingo Hattori1, Kazuteru Shinozaki1
1Department of Materials Sciences, Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, 22-2 Seto, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0027, Japan.
Abstract:
We present the photoreaction of newly prepared bis(6,6'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine)(oxalato)rhodium(III) ([Rh(N N)2(ox)]+) in CD3OD. Photoirradiation of this complex causes the dissociation of ox, followed by the formation of the unprecedented Rh(III) complex with Rh-H and Rh-C σ bonds, [Rh(N N)(C N)(H)(CD3OD)]+ (C N=[6,6'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine]-3-yl-κC3,κN1'). This hydride formation and cyclometallation spontaneously proceed owing to the conflict between the steric hindrance arising from the methyl groups of N N and the driving force for the structural change due to [Rh(N N)2]+ formation. Although [Rh(N N)(C N)(H)(CD3OD)]+ is initially converted to [Rh(N N)2]+ by photoirradiation, it is immediately regenerated by the rollover cyclometallation of the [Rh(N N)2]+ complex. [Rh(N N)(C N)(H)(CD3OD)]+ undergoes H/D exchange for the H atoms in the Rh-H bond and at the 3, 3'-positions of the N N ligand during the photoirradiation. DFT calculations predict with reasonable certainty the spontaneous structural change of [Rh(N N)2]+ to [Rh(N N)(C N)(H)(CD3OD)]+ and the subsequent photodriven Rh-C bond rupture leading to the formation of [Rh(N N)2]+ accompanied by H/D exchange reactions.
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