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Synthesis and reactions of phenylimidotrimethyl-bis(trimethylphosphine)-rhenium(V). Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of bis(trimethylsilylmethyl)oxo-rhenium(V)-μ-oxo-tetrakis(trimethylphosphine)rhenium (I)-(trimethylsilylmethyl)dioxorhenium(V), (Re–Re)

  • Kwok W. Chiu
  • , Wai Kwok Wong
  • , Geoffrey Wilkinson*
  • , Anita M.R. Galas
  • , Michael B. Hursthouse
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The interaction of phenylimidotrichloro bis(trimethylphosphine) with dimethylmagnesium gives the trimethyl compound, Re(NPh)Me3(PMe3)2. Exchange reactions between the trichloro and trimethyl compounds are studied by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance and the intermediates Re(NPh)Me2Cl(PMe3)2 and Re(NPh)MeCl2(PMe3)2 isolated.

The trimethyl reacts with fluoroboric acid to give a phenylamido complex [Re(NHPh)Me2F(PMe3)2]BF4, with acetic acid to give Re(NPh)Me(CO2Me3)2, and with trityltetrafluoroborate to give [Re(NPh)Me2(PMe3)2]BF4.

The interaction of Re(NPh)Cl3(PMe3)2 with excess of bis(trimethylsilylmethyl)magnesium and of trimethyl-phosphine in tetrahydrofuran gives an unusual tri-rhenium compound, (Me3SiCH2)3(O)Re-μ-O-Re(PMe3)4Re(O)2(CH2SiMe3) whose structure as a thf solvate, has been determined by X-ray crystallography. Crystals of the latter are monoclinic, space group P21/n with a = 15.512(3), b = 15.392(2), c = 21.506(4) Å, β = 100.19(2)°, Z = 4. The structure has been refined to an R of 0.07 for 5028 observed diffractometer data. The molecule is tri-nuclear with the central rhenium carrying four PMe3 groups being bound to the second rhenium by a short Re–Re bond and to the third by an asymmetric oxygen bridge. The end rhenium bound to the bridge oxygen carries two CH2SiMe3 groups and an oxygen atom, while the other has one CH2SiMe3 group and two oxygen atoms.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)31-36
Number of pages6
JournalPolyhedron
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 1982

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