All-Organometallic Analogues of Zeise's Salt for the Three Group 10 Metals
摘要:
Ethene has been found to be able to split the electron-deficient pentafluorophenyl bridging system in [NBu4](2)[{M(C6F5)(2)}(mu-C6F5)(2)] to give the corresponding mononuclear compounds [NBu4][M(C6F5)(3)(eta(2)-C2H4)] (M = Pt (1), Pd (2)) in reasonable yield. Compounds 1 and 2 are well-behaved species and have been isolated and characterized by analytical and spectroscopic methods. The crystal structure of 2, as established by X-ray diffraction methods, reveals that the Pd atom is in an approximately SP-4 environment defined by the ipso-C atoms of the three sigma-bound C6F5 groups (C6F5-kappa(1)) and the midpoint between the doubly bonded C atoms of the metal T-bound ethene molecule (eta(2)-C2H4). The ethene molecule is coordinated upright, and the C=C bond length (133.6(6) pm) is the same as in the free ligand (133.7(2) pm). The nickel homologue [NBu4][Ni(C6F5)(3)(eta(2)-C2H4)] (3), formed by the low-temperature reaction of [NBu4](2)[Ni(C6F5)(4)] with B(C6F5)(3) in the presence of C2H4, could not be isolated but only spectroscopically detected in solution. The experimentally established stability of the [M(C6F5)(3)(eta(2)-C2H4)](-) species has been found to follow the trend calculated by DFT methods for the M-(eta(2)-C2H4) bond strength: Pt > Pd > Ni. Furthermore, quantitative estimates of back-bonding in the [M(C6F5)(3)(eta(2)-C2H4)](-) and [MCl3(eta(2)-C2H4)](-) anions were obtained using NBO analyses of electron populations of the relevant donor-acceptor orbitals and the second-order stabilization energy associated with the charge transfer (CT) interactions describing the back-bonding phenomenon.