Issue 13, 2019

Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ruthenium “pogo stick” complexes with nitrogen donor ligands

Abstract

The half-sandwich 1,3-bis(trimethylsilyl)allyl and bis(trimethylsilyl)amido ruthenium complexes [(η5-C5Me5)RuX] (X = η3-C3H3(SiMe3)2, 1; X = N(SiMe3)2, 2) were prepared by reaction of tetranuclear [(η5-C5Me5)RuCl]4 with four equivalents of K[C3H3(SiMe3)2] or Na[N(SiMe3)2]. Complexes 1 and 2 are formally 16- and 14-electron complexes, respectively, and exhibit γ-agostic C–H⋯Ru interactions in the solid state, which were further investigated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations and quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) analysis. The acid–base reaction of the amido complex 2 with 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolin-2-imine (ImDippNH) afforded the imidazolin-2-iminato complex [(η5-C5Me5)Ru(NImDipp)] (4); 4 was also obtained from the reaction of [(η5-C5Me5)RuCl]4 with the lithium reagent [(ImDippN)Li]2. 4 represents the first terminal imidazolin-2-iminato complex with a late transition metal and shows a rare one-legged piano stool (“pogo stick”) geometry with a short Ru–N bond of 1.8607(15) Å. The reaction of 4 with tert-butyl isocyanate (tBuNCO) gave the ureato complex [(η5-C5Me5)Ru{ImDippN(C[double bond, length as m-dash]O)NtBu}] (5) by [2 + 2] cycloaddition. This reactivity together with a DFT study on the bonding situation in 4 suggest a close similarity with related half-sandwich imido complexes [(arene)M(NR)] (M = Ru, Os) and [CpM(NR)] (M = Rh, Ir).

Graphical abstract: Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ruthenium “pogo stick” complexes with nitrogen donor ligands

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 fev 2019
Accepted
28 fev 2019
First published
28 fev 2019

Dalton Trans., 2019,48, 4228-4238

Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ruthenium “pogo stick” complexes with nitrogen donor ligands

M. Peters, T. Bannenberg, D. Bockfeld and M. Tamm, Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 4228 DOI: 10.1039/C9DT00577C

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