Issue 1, 2013

Silver(i) coordination complexes and extended networks assembled from S, Se, Te substituted acenaphthenes

Abstract

Six related organo–chalconium silver(I) coordination complexes, including two examples of rare organotellurium-silver coordination, have been prepared and structurally characterised by X-ray crystallography. The series of 5-bromo-6-(phenylchalcogeno)acenaphthene ligands L1–L3 [Acenap(Br)(EPh)] (Acenap = acenaphthene-5,6-diyl; E = S, Se, Te) were independently treated with silver(I) salts (AgBF4, AgOTf). In order to keep the number of variables to a minimum, all reactions were carried out using a 1 : 1 ratio of Ag/L and run in dichloromethane. The nature of the donor atoms and the coordinating ability of the respective counter-anion affects the structural architecture of the final silver(I) complex, generating a monomeric dinuclear complex {[(AgBF4(L1)2)2] 1}, monomeric, mononuclear, two-coordinate silver(I) complexes {[AgBF4(L)2] (2 L = L2; 3 L = L3)}, a monomeric three-coordinate silver(I) complex {[AgOTf(L2)2] 5}, a monomeric four-coordinate silver(I) complex {[AgOTf(L1)3] 4} and a 1D extended helical chain polymer {[AgOTf(L3)]n6}. The organic acenaphthene ligands L1–L3 all adopt the same ligation mode with the central silver atom (classical monodentate coordination), which employs a variety of coordination geometries (linear, trigonal planar, see-saw, tetrahedral).

Graphical abstract: Silver(i) coordination complexes and extended networks assembled from S, Se, Te substituted acenaphthenes

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 Jun 2012
Accepted
11 Oct 2012
First published
12 Oct 2012

Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 143-154

Silver(I) coordination complexes and extended networks assembled from S, Se, Te substituted acenaphthenes

F. R. Knight, R. A. M. Randall, L. Wakefield, A. M. Z. Slawin and J. D. Woollins, Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 143 DOI: 10.1039/C2DT31390A

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