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Ariana Z Spentzos1, Shannon A Ford1, Breanna Muldowney1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
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In this article, we discuss the synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of a neutral dicobalt complex, [Co 2 (PMe 3 ) 2 ] 0 , supported by a highly reduced, redox-active macrocyclic ligand. The reducing equivalents stored within the ligand framework proved capable of activating a wide scope of small molecule substrates. The addition of a weak acid, lutidinium triflate, led to the clean formation of a bridging hydride that was found to undergo fluxional geometric changes in solution, while exposure of [Co 2 (PMe 3 ) 2 ] 0 to H2 resulted in a rare example of net binuclear oxidative addition to give two bridging hydrides. The addition of diphenylacetylene to [Co 2 (PMe 3 ) 2 ] 0 gave an unusual metallacyclobutane configuration for the coordinated alkyne, a geometry that was mirrored by the product obtained on activation of CO2 by [Co 2 (PMe 3 ) 2 ] 0 . Dinitrogen was not observed to bind to [Co 2 (PMe 3 ) 2 ] 0 , but the use of catalytic quantities of [Co 2 (PMe 3 ) 2 ] 0 in mixtures of KC8 and Me3SiCl under 1 atm of N2 yielded N(SiMe3)3, which was quantified by conversion into NH4Cl. A screen of related dicobalt complexes revealed a dependence on the identity of the pre-catalyst, with yields of fixed nitrogen ranging up to 50(6) %.
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