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Hydrogenation and carbon-sulfur bond hydrogenolysis of benzothiophene promoted by Re2(CO)10 and H4Re4(CO)12
Reynolds, Michael A.,Guzei, Ilia A.,Angelici, Robert J.
, p. 2191 - 2193 (2008/10/08)
In the search for metal complexes that promote the cleavage of C-S bonds in thiophenes, we observe that the reaction of Re2-(CO)10 and benzothiophene (BT) under a hydrogen atmosphere gives the trinuclear cluster Re3(μ-H)2(μ3-S-2- EtC6H4)(μ-2,3-DHBT)-(CO)9 (1), which contains a hydrogenated BT ligand and a thiolate ligand resulting from the hydrogenation and cleavage of a C-S bond in BT. A detailed study of the reaction shows that Re2(CO)10 initially reacts with H2 to give H3Re3(CO)12, which subsequently converts to H4Re4(CO)12, which finally reacts with BT to give 1.
