Abstract
The labile cluster 1,2-Os3(CO)10(MeCN)2 (1) reacts with the chiral diphosphine ligand 3,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)-5- methoxy-2(5H)-furanone (bmf) to furnish 1,2-Os3(CO)10(bmf) (2a) in high yield. Heating cluster 2a over the temperature range 358-383 K under CO leads to isomerization of the bmf ligand and formation of the diphosphine-chelated cluster 1,1-Os3(CO)10(bmf) (2b) and an equilibrium mixture consisting of 2a and 2b in a 15:85 ratio. Extended thermolysis of an equilibrium mixture of Os3(CO)10(bmf) is accompanied by CO loss and ortho-metalation of an aryl ring to afford an inseparable mixture of three diastereomeric hydride clusters HOs 3(CO)9(C29H23O3P 2) (3a-c). Thermolysis of HOs3(CO)9(C 29H23O3P2) (3a-c) in refluxing toluene leads to P-C bond cleavage and formation of the benzyne-substituted clusters HOs3(CO)8(μ-C6H4)(μ- C23H19O3P2) (4a,b) as a 4:1 mixture of diastereomers. The unequivocal identity of the major benzyne-substituted cluster has been determined by X-ray diffraction analysis, where the activation of one of the phenyl groups situated α to the furanone carbonyl group in the bmf ligand has been established. The isomerization and activation of the bmf ligand are contrasted with other Os3(CO)10(diphosphine) derivatives prepared by our groups.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2814-2821 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Polyhedron |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 14 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 22 2010 |
Funding
Financial support from the Robert A. Welch Foundation (Grant B-1093-MGR) is greatly appreciated. X. Wang acknowledges the support by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 managed by UT Battelle, LLC. Prof. Arnold Rheingold is thanked for his hospitality and the use of his X-ray diffractometer that was used to collect the X-ray data on the isomeric clusters 2a,b during the 2004 ACS-PRF summer school on Crystallography for Organic Chemists.
Keywords
- Crystallography
- Diphosphine ligand
- Ligand substitution
- Osmium clusters
- P-C bond-activation
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