Bis(ketopyrrolyl) complexes of Co(ii) stabilised by trimethylphosphine ligandsThe HTML version of this article has been enhanced with colour images.CCDC reference numbers 642094 and 642095. For crystallographic data in CIF or other electronic format see DOI: 10.1039/b710162gElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Figures with representations of all the optimised structures and the corresponding tables of atomic coordinates. Figures with frontier orbitals and spin density for the two spin isomers of complexes. See DOI: 10.1039/b710162g

Autor: Sónia A. Carabineiro, Pedro T. Gomes, Luís F. Veiros, Cristina Freire, Laura C. J. Pereira, Rui T. Henriques, John E. Warren, Sofia I. Pascu
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Zdroj: Dalton Transactions: An International Journal of Inorganic Chemistry; Nov2007, Vol. 2007 Issue 46, p5460-5470, 11p
Abstrakt: 2-Formylpyrrole and 2-acetylpyrrole were deprotonated with NaH to give the corresponding Na salts 1a and 1b, respectively. The reactivity of these salts towards cobalt chloride compounds was studied. The resulting new bis(ketopyrrolyl) Co(ii) 19-electron complexes [Co(κ2N,O-2-NC4H3C(R)=O)2(PMe3)2] (R = H 2a, and Me 2b) were characterised by single crystal X-ray diffraction, to show an octahedral geometry with the PMe3 ligands in trans positions to each other, and two bidentate ketopyrrolyl ligands occupying the remaining coordination positions in a transoid conformation. Powder and solution magnetic susceptibility measurements together with EPR and UV/Vis/NIR spectra revealed a low-spin ground state (dz2, S = 1/2) for Co(ii) in these compounds. Analysis of the EPR superhyperfine couplings suggested that the longer distances (z axis) of the hexacoordinate Co coordination sphere are occupied by the keto-O atoms of the bidentate ligand, leaving the pyrrolyl N and the phosphine P atoms within the equatorial plane. This is confirmed by means of DFT calculations, which also indicate that the most thermodynamically stable isomers are low-spin (S = 1/2) complexes with coordination geometries corresponding to the molecular structures obtained by X-ray crystallography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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