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Coordination chemistry of group 14 metalloles. 5. Use of dicarbonyl (η5-cyclopentadienyl) (1-methyl-2,5-diphenyl-silacyclopentadien-1-yl)iron as a four-electron ligand: Chemical properties and dynamic stereochemistry of the complexes
Colomer, Ernest,Corriu, Robert J. P.,Lheureux, Marc
, p. 2343 - 2348 (2008/10/08)
Chlorine is displaced in 1-chloro-1-methyl-2,5-diphenylsilole by dicarbonyl(η5-cyclopentadienyl)ferrate(I) to give a silole with a Si-Fe σ bond. Attempts to displace the carbonyl ligands to give the corresponding silaferrocene were unsuccessful. This new silole behaves as an efficient η4-ligand with transition metals, giving a new series of complexes which present an interesting reactivity. Thus the Si-Fe bond can be cleaved without decoordination of the η4-ligand, and the Co-Co bond in (CO)6(η4-silole)Co2 can be cleaved without cleavage of the Fe-Si bond. These η4-complexes are fluxional as observed for other series. The interconversion, in solution, of the two enantiomers cis-Δuu and cis-Λuu has an activation energy of ~35 kJ mol-1 and a coalescence temperature of ~ 200 K. However, contrary to other cases, the presence of diastereoisomers cannot be detected.