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Experimental observation of spin delocalisation onto the aryl-alkynyl ligand in the complexes [Mo(CCAr)(Ph2PCH2CH 2PPh2)(η-C7H7)]+ (Ar = C6H5, C6H4-4-F; C 7H7 = cycloheptatrienyl): An EPR and ENDOR investigation
Carter, Emma,Collison, David,Edge, Ruth,Fitzgerald, Emma C.,Lancashire, Hannah N.,Murphy, Damien M.,McDouall, Joseph J. W.,Sharples, Joseph,Whiteley, Mark W.
, p. 11424 - 11431 (2011/02/16)
The paramagnetic aryl-alkynyl complexes [Mo(CCAr)(dppe)(η-C 7H7)]+ (dppe = Ph2PCH 2CH2PPh2; Ar = C6H5, [1]+; C6D5, [2]+; C 6H4-4-F, [3]+; C6H4-4-Me, [5]+) and [Mo(CCBut)(dppe)(η-C7H 7)]+ [4]+, have been investigated in a combined EPR and ENDOR study. Direct experimental evidence for the delocalisation of unpaired spin density over the framework of an aryl-alkynyl ligand has been obtained. The X-band solution EPR spectrum of the 4-fluoro derivative, [3] +, exhibits resolved hyperfine coupling to the remote para position of the aryl group [aiso(19F) = 4.5 MHz, (1.6 G)] in addition to couplings attributable to 95/97Mo, 31P and 1H of the C7H7 ring. A full analysis of the 1H ENDOR spectra is restricted by the low g anisotropy of the system which prevents the use of orientation selection. However, inter-comparison of the 1H cw-ENDOR frozen solution spectra of [1]+, [2] +, [4]+ and [5]+, combined with spectral simulation informed by calculated values derived from DFT investigations, has facilitated estimation of the experimental aiso(1H) hyperfine couplings of [1]+ including the ortho, ±3.7 MHz (±1.3 G) and para, ±3.9 MHz (±1.4 G) positions of the C6H5 substituent of the aryl-alkynyl ligand.
