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iminophosphoranate anion, PhN@P(OAr)2–NPh–, which takes
place in the coordination sphere of Co(II).
Note, that bromophosphite 1 is easily oxidized by dioxygen at
20 °C in solution to give bromophosphate showing a 31P shift at
7.4 ppm.
4. Experimental part
4.4. {CH2(6-tBu-4-Me-C6H2O)2P–NPh–NPhH} (2)
4.1. General
A solution of n-BuLi in hexane (9.0 mL, 1.0 M) was added to a
stirred solution of 1,2-diphenylhydrazine (1.66 g, 9.0 mmol) in
15 mL of toluene at 0 °C. After stirring for 10 min, a solution of
CH2[(t-Bu)MeC6H2O]2PBr (4.04 g, 9.0 mmol) in 20 mL of toluene
was added dropwise. A colorless solution turned orange. The reac-
tion mixture was kept at room temperature for 30 min, the major
part of the solvent was removed in vacuum and 20 mL of hexane
was added. The precipitate (LiBr) was filtered out; the filtrate
was concentrated to 10 mL. A slow crystallization at 20 °C was
completed in about 5 h to leave colorless crystals of 2. Yield:
3.43 g (64%). Anal. Calc. for C38H48N2O2P (2ꢂ½C6H14): C, 76.61; H,
8.12; P, 5.20. Found: C, 76.55; H, 8.20; P, 8.76%. 31P NMR
(80 MHz, CDCl3), ppm: 139.5; 1H NMR (200 MHz, CDCl3): 7.6–6.7
(m,14H), 4.35 (CHaHb dd, 2JH,H = 12 Hz, JH,P = 3 Hz, 1H), 3.35 (CHbHa
d, 2JH,H = 12 Hz, 1H), 2.28 (s, 6H, CH3), 1.23 (s, 18H, tBu), 6.92 (s, 1H,
Solvents were purified following standard methods [7]. Toluene
was thoroughly dried and distilled over sodium prior to use.
Diethyl ether and THF were dried and distilled over Na/benzophe-
none. Cobalt silylamide [Co{N(SiMe3)2}2] [8,9] was prepared
according to a known methods. 2,20-Methylenebis(4-methyl-6-
tert-butylphenol) was purchased from Sigma–Aldrich Chemical
Co. and used as received. All manipulations were performed with
rigorous exclusion of oxygen and moisture, in vacuum or under
an argon atmosphere using standard Schlenk techniques. Hexam-
ethyldisilazane liberated in the course of the metal silylamides
reactions was detected by gas chromatography analyses with a
Tsvet-500 device, equipped with stainless steel columns
0.4 cm ꢁ 200 cm, packed with 5% SE-30 on Chromatone N-Super,
with a thermoconductivity detector and with helium as carrier
gas. Spectrophotometric determination of cobalt in the prepared
compounds was carried out by the methods described in [10].
Infrared spectra were recorded on a Perkin–Elmer 577 spectrome-
ter from 4000 to 400 cm–1 in Nujol on a Perkin–Elmer FT-IR spec-
trometer System 2000 as KBr mulls. NMR spectra were recorded in
CDCl3 or C6D6 solutions using a Bruker DPX-200 spectrometer.
NH). IR (m
, cmꢀ1): 3370w, 1597s, 1290w, 1261w, 1209s, 1114s,
1030w, 932m, 910m, 846s, 832 (sh), 801w, 748m, 693m, 676m,
628ww, 596w, 573w, 528w, 485w, 458w.
Alternatively, phosphitohydrazine 2 may be obtained using
CH2[(t-Bu)MeC6H2O]2PCl [12] instead bromide as a starting mate-
rial in similar yield.
4.2. X-ray crystallography
4.5. Reaction of 2 with Co{N(SiMe3)2}2
X-ray data for 2 and 3 were collected on a Bruker AXS SMART
A solution of Co[N(SiMe3)2]2 (0.49 g, 0.85 mmol) in 5 mL of tol-
uene was added to a solution of the phosphitohydrazine 2 (0.76 g,
1.7 mmol) in the same solvent (10 mL). Green solution slowly
turned reddish brown during reaction time (72 h). The solution
was concentrated at reduced pressure; pink crystals of 3 were
formed after addition of diethyl ether. Yield 0.66 g, 67%.
APEX diffractometer (graphite-monochromator, Mo K
a radiation
(k = 0.71073 Å), /– scan). All structures were solved by direct
x
methods and were refined on F2 using SHELXTL [10] package. All
non-hydrogen atoms were refined anisotropically. H atoms in 2
were refined with mixed treatment: hydrogen atoms in molecule
of 2 were located from Fourier synthesis and refined isotropically,
H atoms of solvate hexane molecule in 2 were included into the
model at geometrically calculated positions and refined using a
riding model. All hydrogen atoms in 3 were placed in calculated
positions and were refined in the riding model. One of t-Bu-groups
in 3 was found to be disordered over two positions and was refined
with a population in each position of 0.5. In crystal of 3 one solvate
Et2O molecule is disordered over two positions so that one part of
Et2O occupies a general position and another part of this one lies in
a special position. SADABS [11] was used to perform absorption cor-
rections. The main crystallographic data and structure refinement
details for 2 and 3 are presented in Table 1.
Anal. Calc. for C72H85CoN4O4.5P2: C, 72.10; H, 7.14; Co, 4.91.
Found: C, 72.30; H, 7.28; Co, 4.86%. IR (m
, cmꢀ1): 1595s, 1300s,
1210s, 1130m, 1050m, 1020m, 925s, 855s, 795m, 750m, 727m,
693s, 629w. UV/vis spectrum (THF): kmax 384, 565 nm.
4.6. Reaction of CoBr2 with lithium salt of 2
A solution of n-butyllithium in hexane (1.6 mL, 0.75 M) was
added slowly to a solution of phosphitohydrazine 2 (0.66 g,
1.2 mmol) in 10 mL of toluene at 0 °C. The reaction mixture was
concentrated under reduced pressure, and 5 mL of THF was added.
The resulted solution of lithium phosphitohydrazide was added to
a homogeneous solution of anhydrous CoBr2 (0.26 g, 1.2 mmol) in
15 mL of THF. The mixture turned dark brown. Brown crystalline
precipitate formed overnight at 0 °C was washed with cold THF
and dried in vacuum. Yield 1.62 g, 98%. Anal. Calc. for
C70H80Br2Co2N4O4P2: C, 60.88; H, 5.84; Br, 11.57; Co, 8.53. Found:
4.3. CH2[(t-Bu)MeC6H2O]2PBr (1)
A mixture of 2,20-methylenebis(4-methyl-6-tert-butylphenol)
(5.0 g, 14.7 mmol) and 1.5 equiv. of tribromophosphine (5.9 g,
22.0 mmol) in 15 mL of chlorobenzene was heated at 135 °C for
3 h in argon atmosphere. Chlorobenzene and excess of PBr3 were
removed under reduced pressure at 50 °C. The residue was dis-
solved in equal amount of toluene; concentrating of the resulted
solution gave colorless crystals (4.12 g, 62%) of 1. Anal. Calc. for
C23H30BrO2P: C, 61.47; H, 6.73; Br, 17.78. Found: C, 61.52; H,
6.69; Br, 17.72%. 1H NMR (200 MHz, CDCl3) 7.3–7.0 (m, 4H), 3.85
(dd, J = 13 Hz, CH2, 2H), 2.3 (s, Me, 6H), 1.4 (s, tBu,18H). 31P NMR
C, 61.03; H, 5.90; Br, 11.49; Co, 8.48%. IR (m
, cmꢀ1): 1592m, 1206m,
1115m, 1026m, 927m, 830s, 744m, 685m, 594w.
5. Supplementary material
CCDC 746205 and 746206 contain the supplementary crystallo-
graphic data for compound 2 and 3. These data can be obtained
free of charge from The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center
(80 MHz, PhCl), ppm: 174.7. IR (m
, cmꢀ1): 1286w, 1260w, 1202m,
1186m, 1123w, 1098m, 915w, 854sh, 837s, 797w, 775w, 697m,
593m, 552w, 530m, 482m, 452m.