The structure and dynamic behaviour of disubstituted derivatives of Rh6(CO)16 containing heterobidentate bridging phosphine ligands

Summary, in English

The solution structures and dynamic behaviour of [Rh6(CO)14(µ-PX)][PX = diphenyl(2-pyridyl)phosphine, (PN); diphenyl(2-thienyl)phosphine, (PS); diphenyl(vinyl)phosphine, (PV)] have been studied by multinuclear NMR and the X-ray structure of [Rh6(CO)14(µ,3-PV)] is reported. In solution, the above clusters undergo a variety of localised CO-exchanges and the mechanisms of these are discussed. The PV ligand in [Rh6(CO)14(µ,3-PV)] is hemilabile and exhibits facile exchange/reorientation of the vinyl group.

• Author: E V Grachova; M Haukka; B T Heaton; J A Iggo; Ebbe Nordlander; T A Pakkanen; I S Podkyrotov; S P Tunik
• Department/s: Department of Chemistry
• Publishing year: 2003
• Language: English
• Pages: 2468-2473
• Publication/Series: Dalton Transactions
• Issue: 12
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b211790h
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Topic: Inorganic Chemistry
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1477-9234