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UV-visible, IR and EPR spectroelectrochemical study of the EC redox transition (PR3)n(CO)3(R'-pz)M+·; M = Mo, W; R'-pz = N-alkylpyrazinium; R = isopropyl, cyclohexyl; n = 1 or 2

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Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 511 (1-2): 273--280 (1996)
DOI: 10.1016/0022-328X(95)05933-G

Abstract

The title complexes, isolated as trans,mer-configurated salts (PR3)2(CO)3(R'-pz)M(PF6), display a strong p interaction between the zerovalent metal center and the excellent p acceptor ligands R-pz+. The solvatochromism of the long-wavelength metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) absorption as analyzed in particular for (PCy3)2(CO)3(CH3(CH2)17-pz)W(PF6) correlates not with established MLCT parameters but with the donor nos. of the solvents. The seemingly reversible 1-electron oxidn. and redn. processes were studied by spectroelectrochem. techniques with regard to EPR, carbonyl vibrational and UV-visible/NIR spectroscopic features. Whereas oxidn. leads to labile M(I) species with 17 valence electrons, the redn. is centered at the R'-pz+ ligand and causes a rapid reversible dissocn. of one PR3 group from the metal (ECrev process). Both EPR and IR data suggest pentacoordination at the 16+d valence electron centers in the neutral species (PR3)(CO)3(R'-pz)M·. on SciFinder(R)

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