摘要:
A series of potentially dinucleating ligands, each with two bidentate imino-pyridine compartments, has been used to prepare the mononuclear complexes [Re(CO)(3)Cl(L")] (n = 1-4) which each have a vacant binding site and so constitute 'complex ligands' for the stepwise synthesis of heterodinuclear complexes. Three of the complexes (with L-1, L-2 and L-4) have been structurally characterised. The mononuclear complex [Re(CO)(3)Cl(L-5)], arising from decomposition of [Re(CO)(3)Cl(L-3)] by hydrolysis of the non-coordinated imine unit, was also isolated and structurally characterised. Luminescence studies show that these compounds are only very weak emitters. The 'complex ligand' [Re(CO)(3)Cl(L-1)] has been reacted with [Ln(hfac)(3)] . 2H(2)O (Ln = Yb, Er) to prepare the heterodinuclear complexes [Re(CO)(3)Cl(mu-L-1)Ln(hfac)(3)] in which the {Ln(hfac)}(3) unit is attached to the second bidentate imino-pyridine site of [Re(CO)(3)Cl(L-1)]. The crystal structures of these show that the bridging ligand has to twist to accommodate the two bulky metal fragments. and that the lanthanide units have an 8-coordinate square-antiprismatic geometry. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.