Reductive Binding and Ligand-Based Redox Transformations of Nitrosobenzene at a Dinickel(II) Core

Autor: Sebastian Dechert, Eleonora Ferretti, Franc Meyer
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Inorganic Chemistry. 58:5154-5162
ISSN: 1520-510X
0020-1669
Popis: The metal-mediated activation of PhNO represents an important starting point for understanding the reactivity patterns of nitrosoarenes in biological systems and catalysis. Here we report that the pyrazole-based dinickel(II) dihydride complex [KL(NiH)2] (1) reacts with PhNO to eliminate dihydrogen concomitant with binding of the doubly reduced substrate in μ-κ(O):κ(N) mode in the bimetallic pocket of [KLNi2(PhNO)] (2). The addition of [2,2,2]cryptand leads to the ionic complex [K(crypt)][LNi2(PhNO)] (3). Structural and spectroscopic analyses evidence that interaction with the Lewis acidic K+ in 2 causes significant elongation and weakening of the substrate’s N–O bond [dN–O = 1.487(12) A in 2 vs 1.374(4) A in 3]. Complex 2 (or 3) reacts with [FeCp*2][PF6] to give LNi2(PhNO) (4), which is shown by electron paramagnetic resonance and IR spectroscopies and density functional theory calculations to feature two low-spin d8 nickel(II) ions and a bridging (PhNO)•– radical anion ligand, with the out-of-plane π*(NO...
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