Issue 37, 2016

Raman spectroscopy of the N–N bond in rare earth dinitrogen complexes

Abstract

Raman spectra have been collected on single crystals of over 20 different rare earth complexes containing reduced dinitrogen ligands to determine if these data will correlate with periodic properties or relative stability. Four types of complexes were examined: [(C5Me5)2Ln]2(μ–η22-N2), 1-Ln, [(C5Me4H)2(THF)Ln]2(μ–η22-N2), 2-Ln, [(C5H4Me)2Ln]2(μ–η22-N2), 3-Ln, and {[(Me3Si)2N]2(THF)Ln}2(μ–η22-N2), 4-Ln. Although each of the complexes contains a side-on bound dinitrogen ligand that is formally (N2)2−, the N–N bond distances determined by X-ray crystallography range from 1.088(12) to 1.305(6) Å. In the 4-Ln series (Ln = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er and Tm), the 1.26–1.31 Å N–N distances do not follow any periodic trends, but the Raman stretching frequencies for Gd–Tm were found to decrease regularly with decreasing atomic number and increasing Lewis acidity of the metal. Similar correlations can be seen with the late metals in complexes of the other series, 1-Ln, 2-Ln and 3-Ln, but exceptions exist, particularly for the larger metals. Comparisons between the several types of complexes as a function of ligand were more complicated and variations in stretching frequency as a function of L in the {[(Me3Si)2N]2Y(L)}2(μ–η22-N2) substituted versions of 4-Y did not give trends consistent with bond distances or Gutmann donor numbers.

Graphical abstract: Raman spectroscopy of the N–N bond in rare earth dinitrogen complexes

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 Nov 2015
Accepted
23 Feb 2016
First published
04 Mar 2016

Dalton Trans., 2016,45, 14634-14644

Raman spectroscopy of the N–N bond in rare earth dinitrogen complexes

M. E. Fieser, D. H. Woen, J. F. Corbey, T. J. Mueller, J. W. Ziller and W. J. Evans, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 14634 DOI: 10.1039/C5DT04547A

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