Coordination behavior of phosphino-phosphaferrocenes: monodentate versus bidentate coordination to divalent palladium
摘要:
Two novel phosphino-phosphaferrocenes [eta(5)-C5H4(CH2)(n)PPh2]Fe(eta(5)-PC4H2-2,5-cy(2)) (PP1: n = 1; PP2: n = 2) have been designed and prepared in order to clarify weak chelate effect in the previously reported (eta(5)-C5H4CH2PPh2)Fe[eta(5)-PC4H2-2,5-((-)-menthyl)(2)] (1). P-31 NMR studies of reactions of PP1 with PdCl2(cod) (6) revealed that PP1 showed stronger tendency to coordinate to the Pd-II center in bidentate fashion compared to 1. On the other hand, chelate effect in PP2 was negligibly weak and a reaction of PP2 with 6 in a PP2/6 = 2/1 molar ratio gave a complex PdCl2(PP2)(2) (10) cleanly in which PP2 coordinated to the palladium center at the PPh2 moiety as a monodentate ligand. X-ray crystal structure studies of chelate complexes PdCl(2()PP1) (7) and PdCl2(PP2) (9) showed that 9 had deviations from an idealized geometry in the square planar complex which could be attributed to a larger chelate ring of PP2, while PP1 in 7 constructed nearly ideal geometry for the square planar complex.From comparison of the coordination behavior between 1, PP1, and PP2, it is concluded that steric bulk of (-)-menthyl groups in I is the main factor of the weak chelate coordination of 1. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.