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Naked (C5Me5)2M Cations (M = Sc, Ti, and V) and Their Fluoroarene Complexes
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posted on 2005-10-19, 00:00 authored by Marco W. Bouwkamp, Peter H. M. Budzelaar, Jeroen Gercama, Isabel Del Hierro Morales, Jeanette de Wolf, Auke Meetsma, Sergei I. Troyanov, Jan H. Teuben, Bart HessenThe ionic metallocene complexes [Cp*2M][BPh4] (Cp* = C5Me5) of the trivalent 3d metals Sc,
Ti, and V were synthesized and structurally characterized. For M = Sc, the anion interacts weakly with the
metal center through one of the phenyl groups, but for M = Ti and V, the cations are naked. They each
contain one strongly distorted Cp* ligand, with one (V) or two (Ti) agostic C−H···M interactions involving
the Cp*Me groups. For Sc and Ti, these Lewis acidic species react with fluorobenzene and 1,2-difluorobenzene to yield [Cp*2M(κF-FC6H5)n][BPh4] (M = Sc, n = 2; M = Ti, n = 1) and [Cp*2M(κ2F-1,2-F2C6H4)][BPh4], the first examples of κF-fluorobenzene and κ2F-1,2-difluorobenzene adducts of transition
metals. With the perfluorinated anion [B(C6F5)4]-, both Sc and Ti form [Cp*2M(κ2F-C6F5)B(C6F5)3] contact
ion pairs. The nature of the metal−fluoroarene interaction was studied by density functional theory (DFT)
calculations and by comparison with the corresponding tetrahydrofuran (THF) adducts and was found to
be predominantly electrostatic for all metals studied.