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Title: Reactivity of the cyanometalate Na[Cp[prime]Mn(CO)[sub 2]CN] with titanium, zirconium, and hafnium halides. Crystal and molecular structure of the [mu]-cyano [mu]-oxo tetranuclear complex [Cp[sub 2]Zr([mu]-NC)MnCp[prime]-(CO)[sub 2]][sub 2]([mu]-O) (Cp = [eta]-C[sub 5]H[sub 5]; Cp[prime] = [eta]-MeC[sub 5]H[sub 4])

Journal Article · · Inorganic Chemistry; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ic00067a031· OSTI ID:5646558
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  1. Universite Louis Pasteur, Cedex (France)
  2. Universite Louis Pasteur, Cedex (France) Universita di Parma (Italy)
  3. Universita di Parma (Italy)

In contrast to most carbonylmetalates of the transition metals, cyanide-substituted anionic complexes such as Na[Cp[prime]Mn-(CO)[sub 2]CN] (Cp[prime] = [eta]-MeC[sub 5]H[sub 4]) do not exhibit a metal-centered HOMO. Instead, this orbitals is essentially nitrogen-based, which favors coordination to metal centers through the cyanide moiety, thus generating Mn-CN-M[prime] chain systems. The cyanometalate ligand [Cp[prime]Mn(CO)[sub 2]CN][sup [minus]] has been observed to coordinate via the CN[sup [minus]] in both terminal and bridging modes. More complex interactions can also be generated, notably in the octanuclear Pd[sub 4]Mn[sub 4] cluster [(OC)Pd([mu]-NC)MnCp[prime](CO)[sub 2]][sub 4], whose novel molecular architecture is characterized by an orthogonal arrangement of helical units. This cluster was formed quantitatively by the reaction of [Cp[prime]Mn(CO)[sub 2]CN][sup [minus]] with [Pd[sub 4]([mu]-CO)[sub 4]([mu]-OAc)[sub 4]], and a diversity of palladium-cyanometalate interactions are generated which maintain the tetrameric Pd structure: a direct Mn-Pd bond and semibridging manganese-bound CO and CN ligands, as well as Mn-([mu]-CN)-Pd bridges. In order to further study the bonding capabilities of Na[Cp[prime]Mn-(CO)[sub 2]CN], we have examined its reactivity with the titanocene, zirconcene, and hafnocene dichlorides, as well as with related titanium(III) and -(IV) precursors.

OSTI ID:
5646558
Journal Information:
Inorganic Chemistry; (United States), Vol. 32:15; ISSN 0020-1669
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English