Issue 17, 2017

Contrasting the group 6 metal–metal bonding in sodium dichromate(ii) and sodium dimolybdate(ii) polymethyl complexes: synthetic, X-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies

Abstract

Extending the class of group 6 metal–metal bonded methylate compounds supported by alkali metal counter-ions, the first sodium octamethylmolybdate(II) complex [(TMEDA)Na]4Mo2Me8 and heptamethylchromate(II) relations [(donor)Na]3Cr2Me7 (donor is TMEDA or TMCDA) are reported. The former was made by treating [(Et2O)Li]4Mo2Me8 with four equivalents of NaOtBu/TMEDA in ether; whereas the latter resulted from introducing TMEDA or TMCDA to ether solutions of octamethyldichromate [(Et2O)Na]4Cr2Me8. X-ray crystallography revealed [(TMEDA)Na]4Mo2Me8 is dimeric with square pyramidal Mo centres [including a short Mo–Mo interaction of 2.1403(3) Å] each with four methyl groups in a mutually eclipsed conformation. In dinuclear [(TMCDA)Na]3Cr2Me7 trigonal bi-pyramidal Cr centres each bond to three terminal methyl groups and one common Me bridge, that produces a strikingly short Cr–Cr contact of 1.9136(4) Å. Broken symmetry density functional theoretical calculations expose the multiconfigurational metal–metal bonding in these compounds with a Mo–Mo bond order of 3 computed for octamethylmolybdate(II). This is contrasted by the single Cr–Cr bond in heptamethylchromate(II) where the singlet ground state is derived by strong antiferromagnetic coupling between adjacent metal ions.

Graphical abstract: Contrasting the group 6 metal–metal bonding in sodium dichromate(ii) and sodium dimolybdate(ii) polymethyl complexes: synthetic, X-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Tsh 2016
Accepted
25 Phe 2017
First published
26 Phe 2017

Dalton Trans., 2017,46, 5650-5659

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Contrasting the group 6 metal–metal bonding in sodium dichromate(II) and sodium dimolybdate(II) polymethyl complexes: synthetic, X-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies

R. Campbell, A. R. Kennedy, R. McLellan, S. D. Robertson, S. Sproules and R. E. Mulvey, Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 5650 DOI: 10.1039/C6DT04644D

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