Experimental and computational exploration of the dynamic behavior of (PNP)BF2, a boron compound supported by an amido/bis(phosphine) pincer ligand
作者:Jessica C. DeMott、Panida Surawatanawong、Shoshanna M. Barnett、Chun-Hsing Chen、Bruce M. Foxman、Oleg V. Ozerov
DOI:10.1039/c1dt11172h
日期:——
The diarylamido/bis(phosphine) PNP pincer ligand (2-iPr2P-4-MeC6H3)2N has been evaluated as a scaffold for supporting a BF2 fragment. Compound (PNP)BF2 (6) was prepared by simple metathesis of (PNP)Li (5) with Me2SBF3. NMR spectra of 6 in solution are of apparent C2 symmetry, suggestive of a symmetric environment about boron. However, a combination of X-ray structural studies, low-temperature NMR investigations, and DFT calculations consistently establish that the ground state of this molecule contains a classical four-coordinate boron with a PNBF2 coordination environment, with one phosphine donor in PNP remaining “free”. Fortuitous formation of a single crystal of (PNP)BF2·HBF4 (7), in which the “free” phosphine is protonated, furnished another structure containing the same PNBF2 environment about boron for comparison and the two PNBF2 environments in 6 and 7 are virtually identical. DFT studies on several other diarylamido/bis(phosphine) pincer (PNP)BF2 systems were carried out and all displayed a similar four coordinate PNBF2 environment in the ground state structures. The symmetric appearance of the room-temperature NMR spectra is explained by the rapid interconversion between two degenerate four-coordinate, C1-symmetric ground-state forms. Lineshape analysis of the 1H and 19F NMR spectra over a temperature range of 180–243 K yielded the activation parameters ΔH‡ = 8.1(3) kcal mol−1 and ΔS‡ = −6.0(15) eu, which are broadly consistent with the calculated values. Calculations indicate that the exchange of phosphine donors at the boron center proceeds by an intrinsically dissociative mechanism.
这项研究评估了二芳基胺基/双(膦)PNP钳形配体(2-iPr2P-4-MeC6H3)2N作为支撑BF2片段的骨架。通过(PNP)Li5)与Me2SBF3的简单复分解反应制备了化合物(PNP)BF2 (6)。6在溶液中的核磁共振谱表现出表观C2对称性,暗示硼周围环境对称。然而,X射线结构研究、低温核磁共振研究和DFT计算一致表明,该分子的基态包含一个经典的四配位硼,具有PNBF2配位环境,其中PNP中的一个膦供体保持"游离"状态。意外形成的(PNP)BF2·HBF4 (7)单晶(其中"游离"膦被质子化)提供了另一个含有相同PNBF2环境的结构用于比较,6和7中的两个PNBF2环境几乎完全相同。对其他几个二芳基胺基/双(膦)钳形(PNP)BF2体系进行的DFT研究表明,所有基态结构都显示类似的四配位PNBF2环境。室温核磁共振谱的对称性外观可以用两个简并的四配位、C1对称基态形式之间的快速互变来解释。在180-243 K温度范围内对1H和19F核磁共振谱的线型分析得到活化参数ΔH‡ = 8.1(3) kcal mol−1和ΔS‡ = −6.0(15) eu,这与计算值基本一致。计算表明,硼中心的膦供体交换通过本质上的解离机制进行。