Substituted metal carbonyls. XX. Unexpected formation of two diphenylphosphine complexes from the oxidation of pentacarbonylrhenate by chlorodiphenylphosphine. Crystal and molecular structures of eq-Re2(CO)9(PPh2H) and cis-ReCl(CO)4(PPh2H)

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0022-328X(93)80077-O

Oxidation of ^- by a molar equivalent of PPh2Cl at ca. -70 deg C yielded three dinuclear complexes, Re2(μ-Cl)(μ-PPh2)(CO)8 (1), Re2(CO)9(PPh2H) (2) and Re2(μ-H)(μ-PPh2)(CO)8 (3), as major products.When PPh2Cl was present in two-fold exc