Issue 26, 2013

Structural variation in ethylenediamine and -diphosphine adducts of (2,6-Me2C6H3S)2Pb: a single crystal X-ray diffraction and 207Pb solid-state NMRspectroscopy study

Abstract

Coordination complexes of (2,6-Me2C6H3S)2Pb (1) with flexible bidentate ligands have been prepared to explore new bonding environments for Pb(II) thiolates. The reaction of 1 with a series of ethylenediamine and ethylenediphosphine ligands resulted in isolation of the adducts [(2,6-Me2C6H3S)2Pb]2(tmeda) (9), [(2,6-Me2C6H3S)2Pb]3(dmpe) (10) and [(2,6-Me2C6H3S)2Pb]2(dppe) (11) [tmeda = N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine; dmpe = bis(dimethylphosphino)ethane; dppe = bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane]. The X-ray crystal structure of 9 shows a dinuclear species in which tmeda is chelating a ψ-trigonal bipyramidal S2N2 Pb centre via axial and equatorial sites. The structure of 10 displays a trinuclear structural unit in which dmpe is chelating a ψ-trigonal bipyramidal S2P2 Pb centre via equatorial sites. Compounds 9 and 10 also contain a second unique metal centre with ψ-tetrahedral S3Pb bonding motifs. The structure of 11 shows the dppe ligand bridging two Pb ψ-tetrahedral S2P metal bonding environments. Static 207Pb solid-state NMR (SSNMR) spectra of 9–11 and [Ph4As][(PhS)3Pb] (12) were acquired with cross polarization (CP)-CPMG and frequency swept pulse (WURST)-CPMG pulse sequences, and the efficiencies of these pulse sequences are compared. The 207Pb SSNMR spectra reveal that the lead chemical shift anisotropies (CSA) vary greatly between the different Pb sites, and are generally large in magnitude. DFT calculations are utilized to relate the orientations of the 207Pb nuclear magnetic shielding tensors to the molecular structures, and to aid in spectral assignment where multiple Pb centres are present. The combination of X-ray diffraction, 207Pb SSNMR and DFT is shown to be invaluable for the structural characterization of these important structural motifs, and should find wide-ranging application to numerous lead coordination compounds.

Graphical abstract: Structural variation in ethylenediamine and -diphosphine adducts of (2,6-Me2C6H3S)2Pb: a single crystal X-ray diffraction and 207Pb solid-state NMR spectroscopy study

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 Dec 2012
Accepted
25 Apr 2013
First published
25 Apr 2013

Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 9533-9546

Structural variation in ethylenediamine and -diphosphine adducts of (2,6-Me2C6H3S)2Pb: a single crystal X-ray diffraction and 207Pb solid-state NMR spectroscopy study

A. J. Rossini, A. W. Macgregor, A. S. Smith, G. Schatte, R. W. Schurko and G. G. Briand, Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 9533 DOI: 10.1039/C3DT33070B

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