Well-defined coinage metal transfer agents for the synthesis of NHC-based nickel, rhodium and palladium macrocycles

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Abstract

With a view to use as carbene transfer agents, well-defined silver(i) and copper(i) complexes of a macrocyclic NHC-based pincer ligand, bearing a central lutidine donor and a dodecamethylene spacer [CNC-(CH2)12, 1], have been prepared. Although the silver adduct is characterised by X-ray diffraction as a dinuclear species anti-[Ag(μ-1)]22+, variable temperature measurements indicate dynamic structural interchange in solution involving fragmentation into mononuclear [Ag(1)]+ on the NMR time scale. In contrast, a mononuclear structure is evident in both solution and the solid-state for the analogous copper adduct partnered with the weakly coordinating [BArF4]- counter anion. A related copper derivative, bearing instead the more coordinating cuprous bromide dianion [Cu2Br4]2-, is notable for the adoption of an interesting tetranuclear assembly in the solid-state, featuring two cuprophilic interactions and two bridging NHC donors, but is not retained on dissolution. Coinage metal precursors [M(1)]n[BArF4]n (M = Ag, n = 2; M = Cu, n = 1) both act as carbene transfer agents to afford palladium, rhodium and nickel complexes of 1 and the effectiveness of these precursors has been evaluated under equivalent reaction conditions.

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Andrew, R. E., Storey, C. M., & Chaplin, A. B. (2016). Well-defined coinage metal transfer agents for the synthesis of NHC-based nickel, rhodium and palladium macrocycles. Dalton Transactions, 45(21), 8937–8944. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6dt01263a

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