Abstract: | Carbonyl Metal Compounds with Polydentate Cyclic Ligands. I. Pentacarbonyl Complexes of s-Trithiane and Related Compounds The complexes (RCHS)nM(CO)5 (R = H, CH3, n = 3; R = H, n = 4; M = Cr, Mo, W) were prepared from the tetrahydrofuran pentacarbonyl metal compounds and the respective ligands. The Cotton-Kraihanzel force constants of these complexes indicate the sulfur ligands to be slightly more basic than triphenylphosphine. The trimethyltrithiane complexes (R = CH3, n = 3) exhibit rapid intramolecular exchange of the M(CO)5-group along the three coordination centers of the ligand. |