TY - JOUR
T1 - Photochemical synthesis and structural characterization of (η5-C5Me5)3Mo3(CO)4(μ2-H)(μ3-O)
T2 - an unprecedented 46-electron trimolybdenum cluster containing a localized monoprotonated MoMo double bond
AU - Gibson, Charles P.
AU - David Rae, A.
AU - Tomchick, Diana R.
AU - Dahl, Lawrence F.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This work was generously supported by the National Science Foundation. We are especially grateful to Dr. Guy Orpen (Department of Inorganic Chemistry, The University, Bristol, U.K.) for supplying us with a copy of his program XHYDEX.
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PY - 1988/2/23
Y1 - 1988/2/23
N2 - Irradiation of the 30-electron Mo2(η5-C5Me5)2(CO)4 and Re2(CO)10 in toluene solution (containing H2O) afforded (in 1-2% yields) a novel triangular metal cluster, (η5-C5Me5)3Mo3(CO)4(η2-H)(η3-O) (1), which was characterized by a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Compound 1, of pseudo Cs-m symmetry, has a triangulo-Mo3(η3-O) core with composite MoHMo and MoMo electron-pair bonds along one unusually short edge (2.660(1) Å) and Mo electron-pair bonds along the other two edges (2.916(1) and 2.917(1) Å). The edge-bridged hydride ligand, which displays a characteristic high-field proton NMR resonance at δ -17.79 ppm, was not found from the crystallographic determination but was located via a quantitative potential-energy-minimization method. This procedure unambiguously established that the optimized hydrogen position, which corresponds to a distinct coordination site with identical MoH distances of 1.85 Å, is the only one that can be sterically occupied by a metal-bound hydride ligand. This 46-electron species is the first electron-deficient trimolybdenum cluster containing a monoprotonated MoMo double bond; its existence is attributed to ligand overcrowding due to the bulky pentamethylcyclopentadienyl rings. Black (η5- C5Me5)3Mo3(CO)4(η2-H)(η3-O) · 1/2THF crystallizes with two formula species in a triclinic unit cell of P1 symmetry with a 8.603(4), b 11.115(4), c 19.412(11) Å, α 80.69(4)°, β 101.10(4)°, and γ 98.88(3)° at -40° C. Least-squares refinement (RAELS with 221 variables) of one independent Mo3 molecule and a centrosymmetrically-disordered THF molecule converged at R1(F) 5.62%, R2(F 6.88% for 8460 independent diffractometry data (I0 ρ 3σ(I0 collected at -40° C with Mo-Kα radiation.
AB - Irradiation of the 30-electron Mo2(η5-C5Me5)2(CO)4 and Re2(CO)10 in toluene solution (containing H2O) afforded (in 1-2% yields) a novel triangular metal cluster, (η5-C5Me5)3Mo3(CO)4(η2-H)(η3-O) (1), which was characterized by a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Compound 1, of pseudo Cs-m symmetry, has a triangulo-Mo3(η3-O) core with composite MoHMo and MoMo electron-pair bonds along one unusually short edge (2.660(1) Å) and Mo electron-pair bonds along the other two edges (2.916(1) and 2.917(1) Å). The edge-bridged hydride ligand, which displays a characteristic high-field proton NMR resonance at δ -17.79 ppm, was not found from the crystallographic determination but was located via a quantitative potential-energy-minimization method. This procedure unambiguously established that the optimized hydrogen position, which corresponds to a distinct coordination site with identical MoH distances of 1.85 Å, is the only one that can be sterically occupied by a metal-bound hydride ligand. This 46-electron species is the first electron-deficient trimolybdenum cluster containing a monoprotonated MoMo double bond; its existence is attributed to ligand overcrowding due to the bulky pentamethylcyclopentadienyl rings. Black (η5- C5Me5)3Mo3(CO)4(η2-H)(η3-O) · 1/2THF crystallizes with two formula species in a triclinic unit cell of P1 symmetry with a 8.603(4), b 11.115(4), c 19.412(11) Å, α 80.69(4)°, β 101.10(4)°, and γ 98.88(3)° at -40° C. Least-squares refinement (RAELS with 221 variables) of one independent Mo3 molecule and a centrosymmetrically-disordered THF molecule converged at R1(F) 5.62%, R2(F 6.88% for 8460 independent diffractometry data (I0 ρ 3σ(I0 collected at -40° C with Mo-Kα radiation.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-328X(88)80033-0
DO - 10.1016/0022-328X(88)80033-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3843112216
SN - 0022-328X
VL - 340
SP - C23-C30
JO - Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
JF - Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
IS - 3
ER -