摘要:
The base-free thorium terminal imido [eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2](2)Th=N(p-tolyl) (1) activates a variety of small molecules such as pyridine derivatives, amines, boranes, chlorosilane, elemental selenium, and alpha,beta-unsaturated esters. Reaction of 1 with pyridine, pyridine N-oxide, 2-methylpyridine N-oxide, p-toluidine, Ph2NH, 9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane (9-BBN), PhSiH2Cl, elemental selenium, PhSeSePh, and methyl methacrylate (MMA) formed the amido pyridyl complexes [eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2](2)Th(NH-p-tolyl)(eta(2)-C,N-C5H4N) (2), [eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2](2)Th(NH-p-tolyl)(eta(2)-C,O-C5H4NO) (3), and [eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2](2)Th(NH-p-tolyl)(eta(2)-C,O-2-MeC5H3NO) (4), diamide complexes [eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2](2)Th(NH-p-tolyl)(2) (5) and [eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2](2)Th(NH-p-tolyl)(NPh2) (6), amido hydrido complex [eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2](2)Th(H)[N(p-tolyl)B(C8H14)] (7), amido chloride complex [eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2](2)Th(Cl)[N(p-tolyl)SiH2Ph] (8), amido selenido complexes [eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2](2)Th[N(p-tolyl)SeSe] (9) and {[eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2]Th(SePh)}(2)[mu-N(p-tolyl)](2) (10), and amido enolyl complex [eta(5)-1,2,4-(Me3C)(3)C5H2](2)Th[N(p-tolyl)CH2C(Me)=C(OMe)O] (11). The new complexes 2-3 and 6-11 were characterized by various spectroscopic techniques including single crystal X-ray diffraction. Furthermore, density functional theory (DFT) studies complement the experimental investigations.