Synthesis and Reactivity of Early Transitional Metal Complexes Supported by Sterically Demanding Amido Ligands PDF Download

Author: Marc John Andrew Johnson
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Author: Michael Garry Fickes
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Author: Jamie Hicks
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This thesis describes the synthesis and characterization of numerous metal-metal bonded complexes that are stabilized by extremely bulky amide ligands. It provides a comprehensive overview of the field, including discussions on groundbreaking complexes and reactions, before presenting in detail, exciting new findings from the PhD studies. The thesis appeals to researchers, professors and chemistry undergraduates with an interest in inorganic and/or organometallic chemistry.

Author: Ho Yu Au Yeung
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Category : Amides
Languages : en
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Author: Christopher R. Yeisley
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Category : Catalysts
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Author: Fai George Wong
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Category : Ligands
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Author: Aimee M. Bryan
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This dissertation describes the synthesis, characterization, and reactivity studies of new low-coordinate complexes of readily available and inexpensive transition metals such as iron, cobalt and nickel. The compounds were magnetically characterized in detail and tested for single molecule magnet (SMM) behavior. SMMs are a topic of intense research because of their potential applications in magnetic memory, high-density information storage and quantum computing technologies. Low-coordinate compounds display magnetic moments that indicate high orbital angular momentum and are very promising candidates for SMM behavior because they also tend to have large negative zero-field splitting (D) values. The complexes reported here are stabilized by using a variety of amido, aryloxo and thiolato ligands with bulky terphenyl groups and also using aryl and alkyl substituted silylamides. A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) and Evans' methods were used to study the magnetic properties and single crystal X-ray crystallography and NMR (1H and 13C) were used to confirm the structures of these compounds in both the solid and solution states. Further characterization studies included UV-visible, near-IR, and IR spectroscopy, melting point, elemental analysis and DFT calculations, where applicable, in order to determine the electronic configurations and bonding schemes. At present there are ca. 100 stable open shell two-coordinate mononuclear transition metal complexes currently known but ca. 20% have a linear coordination at the metal atom with only a few being strictly 180° at their metal center. Very few of these compounds had been magnetically characterized. In Chapter 2, the synthesis and magnetic characterization of the late transition metal Co2+ (d7) and Ni2+ (d8) primary amido complexes Co{N(H)Ar(iPr6)}2, Co{N(H)Ar(Me6)}2, Ni{N(H)Ar(iPr6)}2 and Ni{N(H)Ar(Me6)}2 (Ar(Me6) = C6H3-2,6(C6H2-2,4,6-Me3)2, Ar(iPr6) = C6H3-2,6(C6H2-2,4,6-(i)Pr3)2) are described. The investigations showed that they exhibit interesting magnetic behavior. The bent versus linear geometries of the complexes enable direct observation of the effects of orbital angular momentum quenching upon bending the metal coordination geometry. The electronic configuration of the linear cobalt(II) complexes does not predict first order orbital angular momentum and yet, the magnetic moment of Co{N(H)Ar(iPr6))2 is much higher than the spin only value which suggests a large spin-orbit coupling effects due to mixing of the ground and excited states. In Chapter 3, the synthesis and characterization of the mononuclear chromium, iron, cobalt and nickel terphenyl substituted thiolate complexes Cr(SAr(Me6))2, Cr(SAr(iPr4))2, Fe(SAr(iPr4))2, Co(SAr(iPr4))2 and Ni(SAr(iPr4))2 are described. Their structures show bent coordination geometries of varying degree with strong secondary M-[eta]6 and M-C(ipso) flanking aryl ring interactions of ca. 2.153 [Angstrom] for Fe(SAr(iPr4))2, ca. 1.625 [Angstrom] for Co(SAr(iPr4))2 and ca. 1.731 [Angstrom] for Ni(SAr(iPr4))2. This observation is in sharp contrast to the almost linear coordination observed for the derivatives of the related but more crowded terphenyl thiolate ligand, SAr(iPr6), in M(SAr(iPr6))2 complexes where M = Cr, Fe, Co and Ni and the strictly linear geometry observed for the terphenyloxo analogs M(OAr(iPr4))2 where M = Fe and Co. Magnetic moments for these species are, in general, lower than the spin-only values. Expect for chromium, this is an unexpected observation for late transition metal low-coordinate complexes. The suppression of magnetic moments is most like due to the strong M-arene interactions which effectively increases the coordination number at the metal atom. These results demonstrate the important role that substituents play on the flanking rings of the terphenyl ligands and begs further investigations involving the role of dispersion in the isolation of low coordination mononuclear transition metal complexes. The divalent silylamides M{N(SiMe3)2}2 (M = Mn, Fe, and Co) are key synthons for low-coordinate transition-metal derivatives. In Chapter 4, the previously reported, but incorrectly characterized cobalt(II) silylamide, [Co{N(SiMe3)2}2]2 has been spectroscopically and magnetically characterized for the first time. In addition, the new Lewis base complexes [Co{N(SiMe3)2}2(PMe3)], and [Co{N(SiMe3)2}2(THF)], as well as a previously reported complex [Co{N(SiMe3)2}2(py)] were isolated and characterized. Magnetic studies showed that they had considerably larger magnetic moments than the spin-only value of 3.87 [mu](B), which is indicative of a significant zero-field splitting and g-tensor anisotropy. In addition to their interesting magnetic behavior and unexpectedly large D values in the range of -20 to -80 cm−1. The electronic spectrum of [Co{N(SiMe3)2}2]2 in solution showed that earlier characterization spectra of "Co{N(SiMe3)2}2" match that of the bright green THF adduct and not the dark brown cobalt dimer [Co{N(SiMe3)2}2]2. In Chapter 5, it is shown that the reaction of the versatile cobalt(II) amide, [Co{N(SiMe3)2}2]2, with four equivalents of the sterically crowded terphenyl phenols, HOAr(Me6) and HOAr(iPr4) (Ar(iPr4) = C6H3-2,6(C6H3-2,6-(i)Pr2)2) produced the first well-characterized, monomeric two-coordinate cobalt(II) bisaryloxides, Co{OAr(Me6))2 and Co(OAr(iPr4))2. Not only are these very rare examples of two-coordinate transition metal(II) aryloxides, but the magnetic moments of both the linear and the bent species were well in excess of the spin only value for cobalt(II) ion. It was demonstrated that careful manipulation of the synthetic conditions for Co(OAr(iPr4))2 could produce varying occupancies of the cobalt(II) site and that after weighting the magnetic susceptibilities of the compounds accordingly, the moments were shown to be in close agreement with each other. Chapter 6 reports the synthesis of the unstable nickel(II) bis(silylamide) complex Ni{N(SiMe3)2}2 via the reaction of NiI2 and two equivalents of NaN(SiMe3)2 in tetrahydrofuran, as well as two of its Lewis base adducts, Ni{N(SiMe3)2}2(THF) and Ni{N(SiMe3)2}2(py)2. The reaction of two equivalents of LiN(SiMe3)2 with NiCl2(DME) in tetrahydrofuran afforded the reduced homoleptic tetrameric nickel(I) amide complex, [Ni{N(SiMe3)2}]4. This unique polymetallic structure having a Ni4N4 planar array has four S = 1/2 nickel (I) ions and an antiferromagnetic exchange coupling constant of J = -102(2) cm−1. This study provides strong evidence that the formation of nickel(II) and nickel(I) amido complexes is possible without the use of sterically demanding ligand sets.

Author: Brandon Fitchett
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The use of rare and expensive noble metals in the chemical industry as organometallic catalysts has grown exponentially in the past few decades due to their high activity, selectivity and their ability to catalyze a wide range of reactions. With this growth in use has also come a proportional growth in concern as these toxic metals inevitably leach into the environment and their negative effects on public health and our ecosystems are becoming better understood. First-row transition metal catalysts provide both environmental and economic benefits as alternatives to these noble metals due to their lower toxicity and cheaper costs. The two-electron chemistry that makes the noble metals so attractive however, is more challenging to accomplish with first-row transition metals. Intelligently designing the ligand scaffold which surrounds the metal can mitigate or even eliminate some of the shortfalls of these first-row metals. Some key features that should be considered when designing a ligand are: 1) a strong chelating ability so the ligand can stay attached to the metal, 2) incorporation of strong donors to favour low-spin complexes, 3) inclusion of hemilabile groups to allow for substrate activation and metal stabilization throughout various oxidation states, 4) redox activity to be able to donate or accept electrons, and 5) inclusion of Lewis base functionalities which are able to assist the substrate activation. Ligands which incorporate these features are known as bifunctional ligands as they can accomplish more than one function in the catalytic cycle. Developing first-row transition metal complexes containing these ligands may enable these species to replicate the reactivity and selectivity generally associated with the precious metals. Being able to replace the noble metals used in industry with these catalysts would have tremendous environmental and economic benefits. The objective of this thesis is to advance the field of bifunctional catalysis by examining the behaviour of two sterically svelte, tridentate SNS ligands containing hard nitrogen and soft sulphur donors when bonded to cobalt. Previous work with iron provides a template of the ligand behaviour to which cobalt can be compared, allowing us to contrast the effects exerted by the different metals. After an introduction to bifunctional catalysis in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 describes the reactivity of the amido ligand, SMeNHSMe, with precursors ranging from Co(I) to Co(III), all of which yielded the 19e- pseudooctahedral cobalt(II) bis-amido complex, Co(SMeN-SMe)2 characterized by 1H NMR spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray crystallography and cyclic voltammetry. Although this complex has a similar structure as the Fe analogue, the cobalt bis-amido complex did not exhibit the same hemilabile behaviour that allowed for simple ligand substitution of one of the thioether groups. Instead it reacted reversibly with 2,2'-bipyridine while 1,2-bis(dimethylphosphino)ethane (DMPE) and 2,6-dimethylphenyl isocyanide both triggered additional redox chemistry accompanied by the loss of protonated SMeNHSMe. In contrast, protonation gave the cobalt(II) amido-amine cation, [Co(SMeNSMe)(SMeNHSMe)](NTf2), which allowed for substitution of the protonated ligand by acetonitrile, triphenylphosphine and 2,2'-bipyridine based on 1H NMR evidence. The ability of Co(SMeNSMe)2 to act as a precatalyst for ammonia-borane dehydrogenation was also probed, revealing that it was unstable under these conditions. Addition of one equivalent of DMPE per cobalt, however, resulted in better activity with a preference for linear aminoborane oligomers using ammonia-borane and, surprisingly, to a change in selectivity to prefer cyclic products when moving to methylamine-borane. Chapter 3 delves into the chemistry of the thiolate ligand, SMeNHS, which formed a new 18e- cobalt(III) pseudooctahedral complex, Co(S-NC-)(SMe)(DEPE), from oxidative addition of the Caryl-SMe bond. Scaling up this reaction resulted instead in formation of an imine-coupled [Co(N2S2)]- anion which was characterized by 1H NMR/EPR spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray diffraction, cyclic voltammetry and DFT studies. The latter revealed an interesting electronic structure with two electrons delocalized in the ligand, demonstrating the non-innocent nature of the N2S2 ligand. While the analogous iron complex proved to be an effective pre-catalyst for the hydroboration of aldehydes with selectivity against ketones, this behaviour was not observed with [Co(N2S2)]- which gave a slower rate and less selectivity. The knowledge acquired from this thesis work has advanced the field of bifunctional catalysis by extending the application of these two SNS ligands from iron to cobalt, revealing unpredictable differences in reactivity between the metals. By comparing the behaviour of these ligands with iron and cobalt, we gain a better understanding of the chemistry that is accessible by these ligands and the applications for which they may be used. This increased knowledge contributes to our long-term goal of replacing expensive and toxic noble metals with more benign first-row transition metals, improving the sustainability of the chemical industry.

Author: Scott M. Rocklage
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Category : Metathesis
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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