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Structure and reactivity of paramagnetic cyclopentadienyl cobalt complexes with bulky alkyl substituents

, , , , , , , , , , , and . Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 587 (2): 267--283 (1999)
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-328X(99)00332-0

Abstract

Na tetraisopropylcyclopentadienide or Li 1,2,4-tri(tert-butyl)cyclopentadienide reacts with Co(II) chloride in THF to give the corresponding dimers (C5HR4)Co(m-Cl)2 (1a, R = CHMe2) or (C5H2R3-1,2,4)Co(m-Cl)2 (1b, R = CMe3) in good yield. The nitrosyl complexes (C5HR4)Co(m-NO)2 (2a), (C5HR4)Co(m-Cl)(m-NO)Co(C5HR4) (3a), and (C5HR4)Co(NO)Cl (4a) (R = CHMe2) or the tri(tert-butyl)cyclopentadienyl derivs. 2b, 3b, and 4b were obtained from CoCl2, the resp. cyclopentadienide, and nitric oxide. From the disproportionation of 1a or 1b with CO, (C5HR4)Co(m-Cl)3Co(C5HR4)+2Cl2Co(m-Cl)-2 (5a, R = CHMe2) and the dicarbonyl complex (C5HR4)Co(CO)2 (6a, R = CHMe2) or the tri(tert-butyl)cyclopentadienyl derivs. 5b and 6b were isolated. Compds. 6a and 6b were converted to the carbonyl-bridged dimers (C5HR4)Co(m-CO)2 (7a, R = CHMe2) or (C5H2R3-1,2,4)Co(m-CO)2 (7b, R = CMe3) by UV irradn. Compd. 1a was cleaved with MeCN to yield the novel 17 valence electron cation (C5HR4)Co(MeCN)2+ (8, R = CHMe2), which in MeCN soln. could be further oxidized to (C5HR4)Co(MeCN)32+ (9, R = CHMe2) by electrochem. means or chem. with ferrocenium hexafluorophosphate. Compd. 1a gave the neutral 17 VE complex (C5HR4)Co(PMe3)Cl (10, R = CHMe2) with trimethylphosphine, which could be converted to the Me-substituted odd-electron compd. (C5HR4)Co(PMe3)CH3 (11, R = CHMe2) by treatment with MeLi. Hydrolysis of complex 11 proceeded with phosphine loss and gave the hydroxo-bridged dimer (C5HR4)Co(m-OH)2 (12, R = CHMe2). Crystal structure analyses were carried out for 1a, 3b, 5a, 7a, 7b, 8, 10, and 12. For growth of single crystals tetraisopropylcyclopentadiene turned out to be a well-suited solvent. on SciFinder(R)

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