Annulated carbocyclic gallylene and bis-gallylene with two-coordinated Ga(i) atoms
Arne Merschel1, Shkelqim Heda1, Yury V Vishnevskiy1
1Molecular Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, Inorganic and Structural Chemistry, Center for Molecular Materials, Faculty of Chemistry, Universität Bielefeld Universitätsstrasse 25 D-33615 Bielefeld Germany rghadwal@uni-bielefeld.de http://www.ghadwalgroup.de.
Abstract:
The first carbocyclic gallylene [(ADC)2Ga(GaI2)] and bis-gallylene [(ADC)Ga]2 (ADC = PhC{N(Dipp)C}2; Dipp = 2,6-iPr2C6H3) featuring a central C4Ga2 ring annulated between two 1,3-imidazole rings are prepared by KC8 reductions of [(ADC)GaI2]2. Treatment of [(ADC)Ga]2 with Fe2(CO)9 affords complex [(ADC)GaFe(CO)4]2 in which each Ga(i) atom serves as a two-electron donor. [(ADC)Ga]2 activates white phosphorus (P4) and the Csp -F bond of aryl fluorides (ArF) to yield compounds [(ADC)Ga(P4)]2 and cis-/trans-[(ADC)GaF(Ar)]2, respectively. [(ADC)Ga]2 undergoes oxidation with (Me2S)AuCl to give [(ADC)GaCl2]2, while with PhN[double bond, length as m-dash]NPh it forms [1 + 4]-cycloaddition product [(ADC)GaN(Ph)N[double bond, length as m-dash]C6H5]2 by the dearomatization of one of the phenyl rings.
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