Thioxoethenylidene (CCS) as a bridging ligand

Lorraine M. Caldwell, Anthony F. Hill*, Robert Stranger, Richard N.L. Terrett, Kassetra M. Von Nessi, Jas S. Ward, Anthony C. Willis

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    Abstract

    The reaction of [Mo(=CBr)(CO)2(Tp)] (Tp∗ = hydrotris(3,5-dimethylpyrazol-1-yl)borate) with [Fe2(μ-SLi)2(CO)6] affords, inter alia, the unsymmetrical binuclear thioxoethenylidene complex [Mo2(μ,(C):η2(C′S)-CCS)(CO)4(Tp)2], which may be more directly obtained from [Mo(=CBr)(CO)2(Tp)] and Li2S. The reaction presumably proceeds via the intermediacy of the bis(alkylidynyl)thioether complex S{C=Mo(CO)2(Tp)}2, which was, however, not directly observed but explored computationally and found to lie 78.6 kJ mol-1 higher in energy than the final thioxoethenylidene product. Computational interrogation of the molecules [M2(μ-C2S)(CO)2(Tp)2] (M = Mo, W, Re, Os) reveals three plausible coordination modes for a thioxoethenylidene bridge which involve a progressive strengthening of the C-C bond and weakening of the M-C and M-S bonds, as might be expected from simple effective atomic number considerations.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)328-334
    Number of pages7
    JournalOrganometallics
    Volume34
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 12 Jan 2015

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