In acetonitrile medium, reaction of bisacetylacetonatooxovanadium(IV) {[VO(acac) 2 ]} and acetylhydrazine (CH 3 CONHNH 2 ) in a 2:1 molar ratio provides a novel, unsymmetrical, chiral, mixed-valent, triply bridged, dinuclear vanadium(IV/V) complex having the formula [(Hdmpz)OV(µ-acac)(µ-O)(µ-O 2 CCH 3 )VO(acac)] (Hdmpz = 3,5-dimethylpyrazole). The molecular structure of the complex was confirmed by X-ray crystallography. It crystallizes in the chiral space group P2 1 2 1 2 1 indicating a spontaneous resolution in the crystal. The complex is one-electron paramagnetic and redox active. It displays V V V IV to V V V V oxidation and V V V
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IntroductionThe chemistry of oxovanadium species is an area of intense research activity due to its biological, pharmaceutical, and industrial significance. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Complexes of the mixedvalent {OV(µ-O)VO} 3+ core are of particular interest for their molecular and electronic structures. Structurally characterized complexes containing the {OV(µ-O)VO} 3+ core are very few. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] In all these complexes, the metal ions are bridged by only the oxo group and they are symmetric with respect to the ligands bonded to them. Only in one case do the two ligands attached to the two metal centers differ in the substituents attached to them.[24] The reported structures have been scrutinized [19,24] for a correlation between the geometry of the {OV(µ-O)VO} 3+ core and its electronic structure. It has been found that the anti linear configuration of the core facilitates a very effective overlap of the d xy metal orbitals through the oxo bridge p x orbital and, hence, a complete delocalization of the unpaired 3d electron over the two vanadium centers. [13,17,21] For an anti bent configuration, both localized and delocalized electronic structures are found. In these cases, the π basicity of the other coordinating atoms plays an important role in deciding the electronic structure. [19] Complexes with the syn bent {OV(µ-O)-VO} 3+ core are rare and they have localized electronic structures. [18,22,24] The lone example for a complex of {OV(µ-O)VO} 3+ with a configuration in between syn and anti also has a localized electronic structure. [20] It is interesting to note that on the EPR timescale, except for very few cases, [19,21,24] valence-trapped species display delocalized . This complex is chiral and truly unsymmetrical with respect to the coordination environment around the two metal centers. Unlike the previously reported divanadium(IV/V) complexes, the present complex contains two additional bridges between the vanadium centers. The redox active complex is valence trapped in the solid state as well as in the solution phase. We also report the chirality of the bulk material and optical resolution of the complex in solution by using the Pfeiffer effect.[25]
Results and Discussion
Synthesis and CharacterizationThe dinuclear complex [(Hdmpz)OV(µ-acac)(µ-O)(µ-O 2 CCH 3 )VO(acac)] was synthesized by treating one mole equivalent o...