摘要:
Deprotonation of a cationic rhodium complex of a chelating semistabilized phosphino-phosphonium sulfinyl-ylide ligand afforded the neutral complex of the corresponding yldiide ligand. Despite the limited stability of the yldiide complex its structure was ascertained by ESI MS and multinuclear H-1, P-31, C-13, and Rh-103 NMR spectroscopy. DFT calculations were carried out at the B3PW91/6-31G*/LANL2DZ*(Rh) level to derive a reasonable gas-phase structure for the yldiide complex or model thereof and gain insight into their electronic structure. ELF and AIM topological analyses were used to investigate the metal-ligand bonding and estimate the electron transfer resulting from proton abstraction. ELF weighting of the resonance forms of the anionic "free" yldiide ligand (Ar3P=C--S(=O)Ar) was compared to the corresponding weighting of previously reported neutral counterparts (X=C=Y), namely, bis-alpha-zwitterionic bisylicles of phosphonium, sulfonium, or iminosulfonium moieties (X, Y = PR3, SR2, S(=NMe)R-2)The results suggest that the phosphonium sulfinylyldiide can be regarded as a tris-alpha,beta-zwitteranionic bisylicle (Ar3P+-C2--S+(-O-)p-Tol).