Closely Related Benzylene-Linked Diamidophosphine Scaffolds and Their Zirconium and Hafnium Complexes: How Small Changes of the Ligand Result in Different Complex Stabilities and Reactivities
作者:Sonja Batke、Malte Sietzen、Lukas Merz、Hubert Wadepohl、Joachim Ballmann
DOI:10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00384
日期:2016.7.11
The closely related benzylene-linked diaminophosphines PhP(CH2C6H4-o-NHPh)(2) ([(Ph)A]H-2) and PhP(C6H4-o-CH(2)NHXyl)(2) ( [B]H-2) were prepared as robust alternatives to the previously reported N,N'-bis(trimethylsilyl)substituted derivative PhP(CH2C6H4-o-NHSiMe3)(2) ([(Si)A]H-2). Upon reaction of [(Ph)A]H-2 and [B]H-2 with M(NMe2)(4) (M = Zr, Hf), the respective dimethylamido complexes [PhA]M(NMe2)2 and [B]M(NMe2)(2) ([(Ph)A]-1-M and [B]-1-M, M = Zr, Hf) were isolated in high yields and converted to the corresponding diiodo derivatives [(Ph)A]MI2 and [B]MI2 ([(Ph)A]-2-M and [B]-2-M, M = Zr, Hf). In contrast to [(Si)A]ZrI2, these thermally robust diiodo complexes were found to react cleanly with Bn2MgL2 (L = THE or Et2O), resulting in the corresponding dibenzyl species [(Ph)A]MBn2 and [B]MBn2 ([(Ph)A]-4-M and [B]-4-M, M = Zr, Hf). Upon addition of [B]H-2 to [B]ZrBn2, the related homoleptic species [B](2)Zr ([B]-5-Zr) was generated. Similar 2:1 complexes have not been observed for the hafnium homologue bearing the latter ligand or for [(Si)A]- [(Ph)A]-coordinated complexes. The former dibenzyl complexes were reacted with 2,6-xylylisonitrile, and clean conversions to the bis-eta(2)-iminoacyl complexes [B]-6-Hf and [(Ph)A]-6-M were observed for [B]-4-Hf and [(Ph)A]-4-M (M = Zr, Hf). For [(Si)A]HfBn2 ([(Si)A]-4-Hf) only one equivalent of the former isonitrile was inserted into one of the hafnium carbon bonds, which is in line with the steric differences between [(Si)A] and [(Ph)A].