Issue 1, 2016

NHC carbene supported half-sandwich hydridosilyl complexes of ruthenium: the impact of supporting ligands on Si⋯H interligand interactions

Abstract

Reaction of complex [CpRu(pyr)3][PF6] (3) with the NHC carbene IPr (IPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) results in the NHC complex [Cp(IPr)Ru(pyr)2][PF6] (4), which was studied by NMR specroscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis. Reaction of [Cp(IPr)Ru(pyr)2][PF6] (4) with LiAlH4 leads to the trihydride Cp(IPr)RuH3 (5) characterised by spectroscopic methods. Heating compound 5 with hydrosilanes gives the dihydrido silyl derivatives Cp(IPr)RuH2(SiR3) (6). Systematic X-ray diffraction studies suggest that complexes 6 have stronger interligand Si⋯H interactions than the isolobal phosphine complexes Cp(Pri3P)RuH2(SiR3).

Graphical abstract: NHC carbene supported half-sandwich hydridosilyl complexes of ruthenium: the impact of supporting ligands on Si⋯H interligand interactions

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Oct 2015
Accepted
13 Nov 2015
First published
17 Nov 2015

Dalton Trans., 2016,45, 208-215

Author version available

NHC carbene supported half-sandwich hydridosilyl complexes of ruthenium: the impact of supporting ligands on Si⋯H interligand interactions

V. H. Mai, L. G. Kuzmina, A. V. Churakov, I. Korobkov, J. A. K. Howard and G. I. Nikonov, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 208 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT04067A

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