Ligand Sphere Conversions in Terminal Carbide Complexes Thorbjørn J. Morsing Anders Reinholdt Stephan P. A. Sauer Jesper Bendix 10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00803.s002 https://acs.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Ligand_Sphere_Conversions_in_Terminal_Carbide_Complexes/2084308 Metathesis is introduced as a preparative route to terminal carbide complexes. The chloride ligands of the terminal carbide complex [RuC­(Cl)<sub>2</sub>(PCy<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>] (<b>RuC</b>) can be exchanged, paving the way for a systematic variation of the ligand sphere. A series of substituted complexes, including the first example of a cationic terminal carbide complex, [RuC­(Cl)­(CH<sub>3</sub>CN)­(PCy<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>]<sup>+</sup>, is described and characterized by NMR, MS, X-ray crystallography, and computational studies. The experimentally observed irregular variation of the carbide <sup>13</sup>C chemical shift is shown to be accurately reproduced by DFT, which also demonstrates that details of the coordination geometry affect the carbide chemical shift equally as much as variations in the nature of the auxiliary ligands. Furthermore, the kinetics of formation of the sqaure pyramidal dicyano complex, <i>trans</i>-[RuC­(CN)<sub>2</sub>(PCy<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>], from <b>RuC</b> has been examined and the reaction found to be quite sluggish and of first order in both <b>RuC</b> and cyanide with a rate constant of <i>k</i> = 0.0104(6) M<sup>–1</sup> s<sup>–1</sup>. Further reaction with cyanide leads to loss of the carbide ligand and formation of <i>trans</i>-[Ru­(CN)<sub>4</sub>(PCy<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>]<sup>2–</sup>, which was isolated and structurally characterized as its PPh<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup> salt. 2016-01-25 00:00:00 RuC Terminal Carbide ComplexesMetathesis carbide 13 C chemical shift Ligand Sphere Conversions ligand sphere carbide ligand terminal carbide complexes DFT variation carbide chemical shift cationic terminal carbide NMR coordination geometry terminal carbide MS chloride ligands