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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Knighton, Richard C.
• Emerson‐King, Jack
• Rourke, Jonathan P.
• Ohlin, C. André
• Chaplin, Adrian B.

Titel

Solution, Solid‐State, and Computational Analysis of Agostic Interactions in a Coherent Set of Low‐Coordinate Rhodium(III) and Iridium(III) Complexes

Ist Teil von

• Chemistry : a European journal, 2018-04, Vol.24 (19), p.4927-4938

Ort / Verlag

Germany: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A homologous family of low‐coordinate complexes of the formulation trans‐[M(2,2′‐biphenyl)(PR3)2][BArF4] (M=Rh, Ir; R=Ph, Cy, iPr, iBu) has been prepared and extensively structurally characterised. Enabled through a comprehensive set of solution phase (VT 1H and 31P NMR spectroscopy) and solid‐state (single crystal X‐ray diffraction) data, and analysis in silico (DFT‐based NBO and QTAIM analysis), the structural features of the constituent agostic interactions have been systematically interrogated. The combined data substantiates the adoption of stronger agostic interactions for the IrIII compared to RhIII complexes and, with respect to the phosphine ligands, in the order PiBu3>PCy3>PiPr3>PPh3. In addition to these structure–property relationships, the effect of crystal packing on the agostic interactions was investigated in the tricyclohexylphosphine complexes. Compression of the associated cations, through inclusion of a more bulky solvent molecule (1,2‐difluorobenzene vs. CH2Cl2) in the lattice or collection of data at very low temperature (25 vs. 150 K), lead to small but statistically significant shortening of the M−H−C distances. A homologous family of low‐coordinate complexes of the formulation trans‐[M(2,2’‐biphenyl)(PR3)2][BArF4] (M=Rh, Ir; R=Ph, Cy, iPr, iBu) has been prepared and the constituent agostic interactions systematically interrogated.