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Discovering More Non-Innocence: Triazenido versus Triazenyl Radical Ligand Function, and a Comment on NO2n as a \dqSuspect\dq Ligand

, , , and . Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 52 (17): 4673--4675 (2013)
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201209260

Abstract

Triazenido ruthenium(II) complexes Ru(bpy)(RNNNR)X R = 2-CF3C6H4, X = BF4 (1-BF4); R = 4-MeOC6H4, X = BF4 (2-BF4), ClO4 (2-ClO4) and Ru(Cym)(NCMe)(RNNNR)SbF6 R = 4-MeOC6H4 (3-SbF6), Cym = cymene were prepd. and the structures of 2-ClO4 and 3-SbF6 were detd. by x-ray crystallog. 1+, 2+ And 3+ all undergo electrochem. reversible oxidns., and ESR spectra of the paramagnetic complexes after 1-electron oxidn. are reported. Spin densities for the oxidized forms were calcd. by DFT methods. The ESR results demonstrating the triazenyl radical ligand character in 32+ and, to a lesser extent, in 2+ are supported by the DFT calcns. Calcns. showed that during oxidn. of 2, a significant part of spin-d. and geometry change involves the N-aryl substituents, indicating non-innocence of the ligand. The corresponding observations are apparently absent for the NO2n ligand system, and reasons for this are discussed. on SciFinder(R)

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