Abstract: | Selective Preparation of Twofold Diorganophosphido-bridged Metallatetrahedranes [Re2(MPR3)2(μ-PR2)2(CO)6] with Re2M2 Metal Core (M = Au, Ag) The reaction of the in situ prepared salt Li[Re2(AuPR)(μ-PR2)(CO)7Cl] (R = R′ = Cy ( 1 a ), R = Cy, R′ = Ph ( 1 b ), R = Ph, R′ = Cy ( 1 c ), R = Ph, R′ = Et ( 1 d ), R = Ph, R′ = Ph ( 1 e )) with one equivalent HPR in methanolic solution at room temperature yields the neutral cluster complexes [Re2(AuPR)(μ-PR2)(CO)7(ax-HPR) (R = R′ = R″ = Cy ( 2 a ), Ph ( 2 b ), R = R′ = Cy, R″ = Et ( 2 c ), R = Cy, R′ = R″ = Ph ( 2 d ), R = Cy, R′ = Ph, R″ = Et ( 2 e ), R = R″ = Ph, R′ = Et ( 2 f ), R = Ph, R′ = Cy, R″ = Et (2 g)). Photochemically induced these complexes react in the presence of the organic base DBU in THF solution to give the doubly phosphido bridged anions Li[Re2(AuPR)(μ-PR2)(μ-PR)(CO)6], which were characterized as salts PPh4[Re2(AuPR)(μ-PR2)(μ-PR)(CO)6] (R = R′ = R″ = Ph ( 3 a ), R = R′ = Ph, R″ = Cy ( 3 b ), R = Ph, R′ = Cy, R″ = Et ( 3 c ), R = R″ = Ph, R′ = Et ( 3 d )). These precursor complexes 3 then react with one equivalent of ClMPR (M = Au, Ag) to doubly phosphido bridged metallatetrahedranes [Re2(MPR3)2(μ-PR2)(μ-PR)(CO)6] (M = Au, R = R′ = R″ = Ph ( 4 a ), M = Au, R′ = Et, R = R″ = Ph ( 4 b ), M = Au, R = R′ = Ph, R″ = Cy ( 4 c ), M = Au, R = Cy, R′ = Ph, R″ = Et ( 4 d ), M = Ag, R = R′ = R″ = Ph ( 4 e )). All isolated cluster complexes were characterized and identified by the following analytical methods: NMR- (1H, 31P) and ν(CO) IR-spectroscopy and, additionally, complexes 2 b , 4 a and 4 e by X-ray structure analysis. |