The synthesis, characterization and X-ray crystal structures of the fac-cis and mer-trans isomers of ReOCl3(PMe3)2
作者:Andrea L. Ondracek、Phillip E. Fanwick、Richard A. Walton
DOI:10.1016/s0020-1693(97)05540-0
日期:1998.1
The reaction of mer-trans-ReOCl3(PPh3)(2) with PMe3 in benzene/THF affords an approximately equimolar mixture of the previously unreported fac-cis-ReOCl3(PMe3)(2) (1) and mer-trans-ReOCl3(PMe3)(2) (2) as blue and green crystals, respectively. These isomers, which can easily be separated, have been structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography. In the structure of 1, the Re-O distance is 1.670(5) Angstrom, while the axial Re-Cl bond (trans to Re=O) is longer (2.453(2) Angstrom) than the two equatorial Re-Cl bonds (2.381(2) and 2.386(2) Angstrom. The structure of 2 is complicated by an orientation disorder in which the O=Re-Cl unit is arranged in two opposite orientations such that the half atoms Re and Re' are well resolved but the O/Cl half atoms coalesce. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science S.A.