Issue 29, 2015

Binuclear complexes of Ni(i) from 4-terphenyldithiophenol

Abstract

Binuclear complexes of Ni(I) have been prepared from a 4-terphenyldithiophenol ligand. Steric effects were found to determine the formation of coordination isomeric structures that differ in the nature of metal-to-ligand bonding. Coordination of spatially demanding phosphine ligands PR3, R = C6H6, C6H11, at nickel sites results in a butterfly shaped thiolate-bridged Ni2(μ-S)2 motif. For smaller PMe3, the central π-system of the 4-terphenyl backbone adopts a bis-allyl like μ-syn33-C6H4 structure due to significant d-π* Ni(I)-to-ligand charge transfer. Delocalisation indices δ(Ni–Ni) derived from DFT calculations provide a metric to assess the strength of electronic coupling of the Ni sites based on solid state structural data, and indicated less strong electronic coupling for the bis-allyl like structure with δ(Ni–Ni) = 0.225 as compared to 0.548 for the Ni2(μ-S)2 structural motif. A qualitative reactivity study toward CNCH3 as an auxiliary ligand has provided the first insight into the chemical properties of the bimetallic complexes presented.

Graphical abstract: Binuclear complexes of Ni(i) from 4-terphenyldithiophenol

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Mar 2015
Accepted
15 Jun 2015
First published
01 Jul 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Dalton Trans., 2015,44, 13315-13324

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Binuclear complexes of Ni(I) from 4-terphenyldithiophenol

F. Koch, H. Schubert, P. Sirsch and A. Berkefeld, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 13315 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT01178G

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