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Synthesis and solid state characterization of a meridional triphos iridium metallacycle-carbene complex: [{PhP(CH2CH2PPh2)2} Ir(CR=CRCR=CR){=C(CH2)3O}][BF4] (R = Co2Me)
O'Connor, Joseph M.,Hiibner, Kristin,Closson, Adam,Gantzel, Peter
, p. 1482 - 1485 (2001)
The five-coordinate iridium metallacycle [(PPh3)2Ir(CR=CRCR=CR)(Cl)] (5, R = CO2CH3) and trisphosphine [PhP(CH2CH2PPh2)2] are readily converted in refluxing toluene to the fac- and mer-triphos metallacyclopentadiene complexes [{PhP(CH2CH2PPh2)2}-Ir(CR=CRCR=CR)Cl ] (6-fac and 6-mer). Halide abstraction from the facial isomer 6-fac gives the isolable cationic solvate [{PhP(CH2CH2PPh2)2}Ir(CR=CR-CR=CR)(C lCH2Cl)]BF4 (7, R = CO2CH3) which adopts a mergeometry. Reaction of 7 with carbon monoxide generates the mer isomer of [{PhP(CH2CH2PPh2)2}Ir(CR=CRCR=CR)(CO )] BF4 (8, R = CO2CH3); whereas, reaction of 7 with 3-butyn-1-ol gives the mer-carbene complex [{PPh(CH2CH2PPh2)2}Ir(CR=CRCR=CR)(=C OCH2CH2CH2)]BF4 (9, R = CO2CH3). A single-crystal X-ray crystallographic analysis of 9 represents the first solid-state characterization of a meridional [PhP(CH2CH2PPh2)2] iridium complex.