摘要:
Treatment Of MO(CO)4(NN) with 2 equiv of N-methylmaleimide in refluxing toluene led to the formation of Mo(CO)2(MeMI)2(NN) (MeMI = N-methylmaleimido, NN = bpy (1), phen (2)). There are three possible rotamers c-I-c-III for a bis(maleimido) complex. To learn the exact conformation of the imide ligands, 1 was selected for X-ray structural analysis. This compound crystallizes in the monoclinic space group C2/c with unit cell dimensions a = 16.612-(4) angstrom, b = 14.187(3) angstrom, c = 13.759(4) angstrom, and beta = 125.94(2)-degrees with Z = 4; least-squares refinement based on 1794 independent observed reflections produced final R = 0.0235 and R(w) = 0.0242. The results of X-ray structural analysis reveal 1 to be distorted octahedral with the two CO groups cis to each other, but each trans to a pyridyl group. The two MeMI are mutually orthogonal, and each MeMI ligand eclipses a N-Mo-CO vector. In addition, the central nitrogen atom of each MeMI ligand points to one carbonyl group. Thus, the conformation of 1 in the solid state is c-I. Variable-temperature NMR studies of Mo(CO)2(MeMI)2(bpy) indicate that the complex in solution exists as a mixture of rotamers c-I and c-II that interchange rapidly above room temperature due to the rotation of the two alkene ligands. Several mechanisms of alkene rotation have been considered. From the NMR results of 1 and complexes MO(CO)2(DMFU)2(NN) (DMFU = dimethyl fumarato; NN = bpy and phen), we conclude that, in these octahedral trans-bis(alkene) complexes, alkene rotation takes place via a conrotatory mechanism. A dissociative process involving the exchange of free and coordinated alkenes and nondissociative mechanisms involving disrotatory motion and independent motion of the alkene ligands cannot account for all the observations.