Tetrahydroquinolinyl Amido and Indolinyl Amido Complexes of Tantalum as Models for Substrate−Catalyst Adducts in Hydrodenitrogenation Catalysis
作者:Peter A. Fox、Steven D. Gray、Michael A. Bruck、David E. Wigley
DOI:10.1021/ic960298n
日期:1996.1.1
The reactions of TaCl5 with Me(3)SiNC(9)H(10) or LiNC9H10, where [NC9H10](-) = tetrahydroquinolinyl (the amido anion of tetrahydroquinoline), afford selective preparative routes to the complete series of amido halide complexes of tantalum(V) Ta(NC9H10)(n)Cl-5-n for n = 1-5 (compounds 1-5, respectively). The monokis(tetrahydroquinolinyl) complex is isolated as an ether adduct Ta(NC9H10)Cl-4(OEt(2)) while the complexes Ta(NC9H10)(n)Cl-5-n (n = 2-5) are found to be base-free, monomeric species. The related complexes of indolinyl [NC8H8](-) (the amido anion of indoline), Ta(NC8H8)(n)Cl-5-n(THF) for n = 1 (6) or 2 (7), have been prepared from TaCl5, Me(3)SiNC(8)H(8), and THF. An X-ray structural determination of Ta(NC9H10)(2)Cl-3 (2) reveals that it adopts a trigonal bipyramidal geometry with equatorial amido ligands that are closer to lying parallel (within) than perpendicular to the TBP equatorial plane. Routes to mixed-ligand aryloxide-amide complexes have been developed from either aryloxide or amido precursors but not from both. Thus, Ta(NC9H10)(OAr)Cl-3(OEt(2)) (8), where Ar = 2,6-(C6H3Pr2)-Pr-i, and Ta(NC8H8)(OAr)Cl-3(OEt(2)) (9) are available from reacting Ta(OAr)Cl-4(OEt(2)) with Me(3)SiNC(9)H(10) and Me(3)SiNC(8)H(8), respectively, while Ta(NC9H10)(2)(OAr)(2)Cl (10) is available from Ta(NC9H10)(2)Cl-3 (2) and excess LiOAr . OEt(2). The alkyl derivatives Ta(NC9H10)(OAr)Me(2)Cl (11), Ta(NC9H10)(OAr)Et(2)Cl (12), Ta(NC9H10)(2)(OAr)(2)Me (13), and Ta(NC9H10)Me(2)Cl(2) (14) are prepared from AlR(3) or ZnR(2) reagents and the appropriate precursor. Thermolyzing compounds 4, 5, and 11-14 in solution afforded no evidence for the formation of any eta(2)(N,C)-heterocyclic complexes arising from metalation of a NC9H10 ligand.