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The homoleptic compound [PPh4][CF3AuCF3] cleanly undergoes photoinduced oxidative addition of CF3I to afford the organogold(III) derivative [PPh4][(CF3)3AuI] in good yield and under mild conditions. This compound provides a convenient entry to the chemistry of the perfluorinated (CF3)3Au fragment, the properties of which were analyzed with the aid of DFT methods and compared with those of the homologous non‐fluorinated (CH3)3Au moiety. It was found that reductive elimination of CX3−CX3 in the former (X=F) requires a much higher energy barrier than in the latter (X=H) and is therefore considerably less favored. This can be considered as one of the main features underlying the significantly higher stability associated to the (CF3)3Au fragment and its derivatives. This unsaturated, 14‐electron species can be stabilized by coordination of any of the halide ligands, including fluoride. In fact, the whole series of anionic [PPh4][(CF3)3AuX] complexes (X=F, Cl, Br, I, CN) has now been isolated and conveniently characterized. Evidence for intermolecular decomposition pathways upon thermolysis in the condensed phase is presented.
The homoleptic compound [PPh4][CF3AuCF3] cleanly undergoes photoinduced oxidative addition of CF3I to afford the organogold(III) derivative [PPh4][(CF3)3AuI] in good yield and under mild conditions. This compound provides a convenient entry to the chemistry of the perfluorinated (CF3)3Au fragment, the properties of which were analyzed with the aid of DFT methods and compared with those of the homologous non‐fluorinated (CH3)3Au moiety. It was found that reductive elimination of CX3−CX3 in the former (X=F) requires a much higher energy barrier than in the latter (X=H) and is therefore considerably less favored. This can be considered as one of the main features underlying the significantly higher stability associated to the (CF3)3Au fragment and its derivatives. This unsaturated, 14‐electron species can be stabilized by coordination of any of the halide ligands, including fluoride. In fact, the whole series of anionic [PPh4][(CF3)3AuX] complexes (X=F, Cl, Br, I, CN) has now been isolated and conveniently characterized. Evidence for intermolecular decomposition pathways upon thermolysis in the condensed phase is presented.
A new family of the quintuply bonded dichromium complexes [Cr2{μ‐κ2‐HC(N‐2,6‐R2C6H3)2}2(μ‐κ2‐HC[NAr]2)] (R = iPr, Ar = 4‐MeC6H4 (5), Ar = 3,5‐Me2C6H3 (6), and Ar = 2,6‐Me2C6H3 (7); R = Et, Ar = 4‐MeC6H4 (8), Ar = 3,5‐Me2C6H3 [9], and Ar = 2,6‐Et2C6H3 (10)) with a heteroleptic lantern configuration was obtained upon the addition of one equivalent of amidinate to the quintuply bonded dichromium amidinates [Cr{μ‐κ2‐HC(N‐2,6‐R2C6H3)2}]2 (R = iPr, Et). Additionally, the same approach was applied to the preparation of the acetate derivative [Cr2{μ‐κ2‐HC(N‐2,6‐ iPr2C6H3)2}2(μ‐κ2‐CH3CO2)] (11), which represents the first example that the quintuply bonded dinuclear complex contains an oxygen‐containing ligand. Of particular interest is that the Cr‐Cr bond lengths in these new trigonal paddlewheel quintuple Cr‐Cr bond species are comparable with those in their precursor compounds. They show ultrashort Cr‐Cr bond lengths in a narrow range of 1.740–1.755 å on the basis of single‐crystal X‐ray crystallography. The small Mayer bond orders of the long Cr‐N bonds as well as divergent, C2v and D3h, structural conformations in 5–11 suggest that the metal–ligand interactions possess minor covalent character and the electrostatic interactions play a dominant role. As a result, these extremely short Cr‐Cr quintuple bonds are caused by the overlap between five pairs of d orbitals that do not involve much in metal–ligand bonding. Additionally, anionic lantern dichromium trisamidinates 5–10 can be chemically oxidized by one electron, supported by electrochemistry, and their ease to undergo oxidation is presumably associated with their neutral lantern dichromium trisamindinate products, whose structures inherently display a Jahn‐Teller distortion, exemplified by the structure of the homoleptic dichromium complex [Cr2{μ‐κ2‐HC(N‐2,6‐Et2C6H3)2}3] [12] determined by X‐ray crystallography. These results unambiguously support the Cr‐Cr quintuple bonding in these novel anionic lantern dichromium complexes.
The rhodium benzyl complexes Rh(diphos*)(η3-CH2Ph) (1–14, diphos* = chiral bis(phosphine)), potential precursors for asymmetric catalysis, were prepared either by treatment of Rh(COD)(η3-CH2Ph) (15, COD = 1,5-cyclooctadiene) with diphos* or from the reaction of [Rh(diphos*)(Cl)]2 (16–20) with PhCH2MgCl, and their structures and dynamics were investigated. For C 2-symmetric diphos* (BPE and DuPhos derivatives, Me-FerroLANE, Et-FerroTANE, DIOP, BINAP), observation of one set of NMR signals for complexes 1–12 suggested that the two diastereomers in which different η3-benzyl enantiofaces were coordinated to rhodium interconverted rapidly on the NMR time scale via suprafacial shifts; observation of five inequivalent aryl 1H NMR signals showed that antarafacial shifts were slow on the NMR time scale. With the C 1-symmetric ligands (R,S)-CyPF-t-Bu and (S,R)-Me-BoPhoz, complexes 13 and 14 gave rise to two sets of NMR signals, consistent with fast suprafacial shifts but slow antarafacial shifts on the NMR time scale. Density functional theory studies of the Me-DuPhos, Me-BPE, Ph-BPE, Me-FerroLANE, and CyPF-t-Bu benzyl complexes 1, 4, 7, 11, and 13 showed that enantioface-selective benzyl coordination involved small energy differences (0.4–2.7 kcal/mol). The barrier to interconversion between these isomers by suprafacial shifts was also low (2.2–7.1 kcal/mol), and the computed barrier for antarafacial shifts in Me-DuPhos complex 1 was significantly higher. Treatment of [Rh(COD)(Cl)]2 with PhCH2MgCl gave 15; excess Grignard reagent yielded the ate complex [Mg2Cl3(THF)6][Rh(COD)(η1-CH2Ph)2] (21). Benzyl complexes 11 and 13, 21, and dimers 17–19 (diphos* = (R,R)-i-Pr-DuPhos, (R,R)-Me-FerroLANE, (R,R)-Ph-BPE) were structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography.
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