The influence of remote substituent in tetrakis(μ-N,N′-diarylformamidinato)–dirhodium(II) compounds. Part 7. Linear free energy relationships in dinuclear compounds
作者:Tong Ren、Chun Lin、Edward J. Valente、Jeffrey D. Zubkowski
DOI:10.1016/s0020-1693(99)00317-5
日期:2000.1
Synthesis and characterizations are reported for the tetrakis(mu-N,N'-diarylformamidinato)dirhodium(II) compounds, where Ar is either XC6H4- with X as p-OMe (1), p-Me (2), H (3), m-OMe (4), p-Cl (5), m-Cl (6), m-CF3 (7), p-CF3 (8), or 3,4-Cl2C6H3 (9), or 3,5-Cl2C6H3 (10). The quasireversible redox couples Rh-2(6+)/Rh-2(5+) (A), Rh-2(5+)/Rh-2(4+) (B), and Rh-2(4+)/Rh-2(3+) (C) were observed for all the compounds with the exception of 9. The electrode potentials are related to the Hammett constant (sigma) of X by the following equation: Delta E-1/2 = E-1/2(X) - E-1/2(H) = rho(8 sigma) mV with the reactivity constant rho for the redox couples A, B, and C as 96, 98, and 97 mV, respectively. Molecular structures of compounds 4 and 10 were determined via X-ray diffraction studies. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.