Kinetic studies of some substituted hexarhodium carbonyl clusters

Reactions of the halides X- (X- = chloride, bromide or iodide) with the substituted cluster Rh6(CO)15(PPh3) in oxygen-free chloroform lead to [Rh5(CO)14(PPh3)]-, Rh(CO)2(PPh3)2X and [Rh(CO)2X2]- in the molar ratios 2:1: approximately 13. Oxidation by the solvent is assumed to lead to most of the Rh(I) product, and the stoichiometry for reactions with I- can be defined as 4Rh6(CO)15(PPh3) + 27I- + 12CHCl3 --> 2[Rh5(CO)14(PPh3)]- + Rh(CO)2(PPh3)2I + 13[Rh(CO)2I2]- + 6C2H2Cl4 + 4CO + 12Cl-. This can be rationalized quite simply with the aid of a few generally justifiable assumptions. Rate constants for reactions with bromide increase to a limiting value with increasing [Br-] in a way that shows that breaking of one Rh-Rh bond, with an unusual closo to nido structural change, is rate determining. This opening of the cluster might be spontaneous or solvent induced. To complete the reaction, the bromide has to compete with the reverse nido to closo change. The same closo to nido change is also a major rate determining step for reactions with P(OPh)3 in oxygen-free solutions, and for reactions with bromide in oxygenated solutions in the presence of trifluoroacetic and some other acids. The limiting rates increase slightly with increasing basicity of the ligands P(p-XC6H4)3 along the series X = F3C, Cl, F, H and MeO. Activation parameters for these reactions are reported.     

Preparation and reactivity of metal-containing monomers

Mono- and disubstituted cluster metal-containing monomers were obtained under mild conditions on interaction of Rh₆(CO)₁₆ with 4-vinylpyridine (4-ViPy) in the presence of N-trimethylaminoxide. These products were characterized by IR and¹H NMR spectroscopy and by elemental and X-ray analyses. Rh₆(CO)₁₅(4-ViPy) was found to be an octahedral cluster with eleven terminal and four ₃-bridging carbonyl ligands. 4-ViPy is linked with the Rh(3) atom through the N atom and occupies the coordination site of the twelfth CO terminal ligand. The mean value of the Rh-Rh bond length is 2.762 Å. The unsaturated ligand has little or no effect on the geometry of the starting cluster and its double bond retains the ability to undergo addition reactions.For part 28, seeRuss. Chem. Bull., 1993, 453.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 975–979, May, 1993.     

Synthesis and structural characterization of two novel heterometallic clusters: [Rh4Pt2(CO)11(dppm)2] and [Ru2Rh2Pt2(CO)12(dppm)2

Two novel heterometallic octahedral clusters [Rh(4)Pt(2)(CO)(11)(dppm)(2)](1) and [Ru(2)Rh(2)Pt(2)(CO)(12)(dppm)(2)](2) were synthesized by the reaction of [Rh(2)Pt(2)(CO)(6)(dppm)(2)] with [Rh(6)(CO)(14)(NCMe)(2)] and Ru(3)(CO)(12), respectively. Solid state structures of 1 and 2 have been established by a single crystal X-ray diffraction study. Two dppm ligands in 1 are bonded to one platinum and three rhodium atoms, which form an equatorial plane of the Rh(4)Pt(2) octahedron. Two rhodium and two platinum atoms bound to the diphosphine ligands in 2 are nonplanar to give an octahedral C2 symmetric Ru(2)Rh(2)Pt(2)(dppm)2 framework. The (31)P NMR investigation of and (1D, (31)P COSY, (31)P-[(103)Rh] HMQC) and simulation of 1D spectral patterns showed that in both clusters the structures of the M(6)(PP)(2) fragments found in the solid state are maintained in solution.     

Application of HMQC spectroscopy to the observation of the metal resonance in polymetallic compounds: the effect of multiple-metal spin transitions

Multiple-metal spin transitions which distort the HMQC spectra of rhodium carbonyl clusters are discussed. These effects are seen whenever the detector nucleus, e.g. 13C or 31P, couples to more than one metal spin and are not restricted to detector ligands occupying edge- or face-bridging sites. These effects are illustrated in, but not limited to, the 13C-{103Rh} and 31P-{103Rh} HMQC spectra of [Rh6(CO)15L], (where L = P(4-F-C6H4)3), [Rh4(CO)11{P(OPh)3}], [Rh6C(CO)15]2- and [Rh2(carboxylate)2PPh3]. The effect is to modulate the intensity and position of the correlations in the metal dimension; cross peaks are displaced from the true chemical shift, additional cross peaks are seen and the intensity of the coherences varies as a function of the preparation delay, d2, and coupling constant, and may go to zero at the conventional value of 1/(2J). Analyses of the relevant spin systems are given together with experimental strategies to overcome these effects.     

Addition of secondary phosphines to a vinyl ether of diacetone-d-glucose: a new approach to optically active phosphines and their derivatives

Secondary phosphines react readily with a vinyl ether of diacetone-d-glucose under radical initiation conditions to give, in high yield, anti-Markovnikov adducts, diorganyl{2-[3-O-(1,2:5,6-di-O-isopropylidene)-d-glucofuranosyloxy]ethyl}phosphines, which oxidize almost quantitatively upon reacting with air oxygen or elemental sulfur to form the corresponding optically active phosphine oxides or sulfides.     

Assembly of the Au-diphosphine helical cage molecules via alkynyl-μ4-methylydine ligand transformation

The assembly of the gold(I)-diphosphine cages occurs via unprecedented transformation of the alkynyls into the μ(4)-methylydine ligands under basic conditions. These compounds demonstrate the equilibrium between the P?M helical isomers and serve as hosts to accommodate small molecules (CH(2)Cl(2) and CS(2)).