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DOI: 10.1039/A807500J (Paper) Reference Section for: J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1999, 965-970

Redox behavior of the molybdenum and tungsten metallafullerenes M(η2-C60)(CO)2(phen)(dbm) (phen = 1,10-phenanthroline; dbm = dibutyl maleate): (spectro)electrochemistry and theoretical considerations

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Piero Zanello, Franco Laschi, Marco Fontani, Carlo Mealli, Andrea Ienco, Kaluo Tang, Xianglin Jin and Lei Li

Abstract

Electrochemistry of M(η2-C60)(CO)2(phen)(dbm) (M = W 1, Mo 2; phen = 1,10-phenanthroline; dbm = dibutyl maleate) shows that the complexes undergo four sequential reduction processes. As with free C60, the first three electrons add reversibly (even if the relevant potentials are shifted ca. 0.15 V toward negative values), whereas the fourth reduction features chemical irreversibility. Cyclic voltammetry gives evidence that, as a consequence of the latter process, the metal fragment decomplexes and [C60]3– is released. In good agreement with this picture, a qualitative MO approach shows four close LUMOs for the ground state structure of the uncharged complexes. The first three levels are delocalized over C60 (somewhat extended to the dmb π system), while the fourth one is metal–fullerene antibonding (back donation dπ → π* C60) and its occupation causes fulleride dissociation. The EPR spectra of the electrogenerated [1]– and [2]– monoanions are significantly different from that of [C60]– and seem suggestive of metal character for these radical species. At present, this result is unexpected in that the unpaired electron in the anions [1]– and [2]– should be intuitively centered on the coordinated fullerene.

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