Synthesis, reactivity and X-ray crystallographic characterization of chloro(propan-2-ol)bis(tetraisopropoxoaluminato)praseodymium(III) dimer, [{Pr[Al(OPri)4]2(PriOH)(µ-Cl)}2]

Abstract

The product of the 1 : 2 reaction between PrCl₃·3PrⁱOH and K[Al(OPrⁱ)₄] in benzeno–propan-2-ol, has been shown by X-ray crystallographic analysis to be a heptacoordinated heteroleptic alkoxometallatopraseodymium(III) complex 1, which affords solvated and unsolvated species respectively by ligand displacement reactions and distillation in vacuo.