| Abstract: | Syntheses, Structure Determination and Reactions of Phosphine Substituted Derivatives of Fe3(CO)9(μ3-CF)2 Photolysis of Fe3(CO)9(μ3-CF)2 1 in the presence of acetonitrile 2a or benzoenitrile 2b results in the substitution of a single carbonyl ligand by a nitrile ligand yielding Fe3(CO)8(CH3CN)(μ3-CF)2 3a and Fe3(CO)8(C6H5CN)(μ3-CF)2 3b, respectively. The acetonitrile ligand in 3a can be easily replaced by trimethyl-phosphine 4a or triphenylphosphine 4b . The monosubstituted compounds Fe3(CO)8(PR3)(μ3-CF)25, R = CH3 a, R = C6H5, b are obtained as major products besides a small amount of the disubsituted products Fe3(CO)7(PR3)2(μ3-CF)2 6. The structure of 5a has been elucidated by a single crystal X-ray structure determination. Thermal ligand substitution in 1, however, results in the formation of a mixture of mono-, disubstituted, and trisubstituted products, in which 6b is the major product for diphenylphosphine. 5a reacts with ethyne 7 forming a phosphine substituted diferra-allyl-cluster Fe3(CO)7(PR3)(μ3-CF)(μ3? CF? CH? CH) 8. The structure of one isomere of 8 has been determinated by X-ray crystallography. |
