Light Lanthanide Metallocenium Cations Exhibiting Weak Equatorial Anion Interactions |
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Authors: | Jingjing Liu Dr. Daniel Reta Jake A. Cleghorn Yu Xuan Yeoh Dr. Fabrizio Ortu Dr. Conrad A. P. Goodwin Dr. Nicholas F. Chilton Dr. David P. Mills |
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Affiliation: | School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL UK |
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Abstract: | As the dysprosocenium complex [Dy(Cpttt)2][B(C6F5)4] (Cpttt=C5H2tBu3-1,2,4, 1-Dy ) exhibits magnetic hysteresis at 60 K, similar lanthanide (Ln) complexes have been targeted to provide insights into this remarkable property. We recently reported homologous [Ln(Cpttt)2][B(C6F5)4] ( 1-Ln ) for all the heavier Ln from Gd–Lu; herein, we extend this motif to the early Ln. We find, for the largest LnIII cations, that contact ion pairs [Ln(Cpttt)2{(C6F5-κ1-F)B(C6F5)3}] ( 1-Ln ; La–Nd) are isolated from reactions of parent [Ln(Cpttt)2(Cl)] ( 2-Ln ) with [H(SiEt3)2][B(C6F5)4], where the anion binds weakly to the equatorial sites of [Ln(Cpttt)2]+ through a single fluorine atom in the solid state. For smaller SmIII, [Sm(Cpttt)2][B(C6F5)4] ( 1-Sm ) is isolated, which like heavier 1-Ln does not exhibit equatorial anion interactions, but the EuIII analogue 1-Eu could not be synthesised due to the facile reduction of EuIII precursors to EuII products. Thus with the exception of Eu and radioactive Pm this work constitutes a structurally similar family of Ln metallocenium complexes, over 50 years after the [M(Cp)2]+ series was isolated for the 3d metals. |
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Keywords: | cyclopentadienyl ligands lanthanides magnetic properties metallocenes sandwich complexes |
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