摘要:
The new diagonal and lateral monosubstituted cyclopentadienyl dibromodicarbonylrhenium complexes (eta(5)-C(5)H(4)R)Re(CO)(2)Br-2 (R = Me, Et, tBu, Si(CH3)(3), C6H11) have been synthesized and fully characterized by elemental analysis and IR and NMR spectroscopy. All the lateral complexes are completely converted to the corresponding diagonal isomers upon refluxing in toluene. Interestingly, diag-(eta(5)-C(5)H(4)Me)Re(CO)(2)Br-2 isomerizes to the corresponding lateral isomer in almost quantitative yield upon heating at 106-110 degrees C in the solid state. A DSC study of diag-(eta(5)-C(5)H(4)Me)Re(CO)(2)Br-2 shows that the solid state diag to lat isomerization proceeds exothermically. This is the first example of an organometallic complex that undergoes a phase-dependent reversible isomerization reaction under only thermal conditions.