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Coupling of organometallic reaction centers through the non-planar bridging ligand 2,3-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrazine

, , , and . Zeitschrift fuer Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie, 630 (13-14): 2409--2417 (2004)
DOI: 10.1002/zaac.200400133

Abstract

Half-sandwich rhodium and iridium 2,3-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrazine (2,3-bppz) complexes were prepd. and characterized by crystal structure detns. and cyclic voltammetry. Reaction of Cp*MCl22 with free 2,3-bppz afforded monomeric Cp*MCl(2,3-bppz)PF6, whereas the same reaction in the presence of AgPF6 gave dimeric Cp*MCl2(m-2,3-bppz)PF62 (Cp* = h5-C5Me5, M = Rh, Ir). Crystal structure of the monomeric iridium complex features essentially nonplanar 2,3-bppz ligand, coordinated by one of its pyrazine and pyridine nitrogens. The prepd. complexes were investigated by cyclic voltammetry and UV/VIS-spectroelectrochem. For both the mononuclear and, unusually, the dinuclear complexes only chloride-dissociative two-electron redn. processes were obsd. on SciFinder(R)

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