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Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Coordination of 1,2,4-Triazolato, Tetrazolato, and Pentazolato Ligands to the [K(18-crown-6)]+ Fragment
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posted on 2006-10-16, 00:00 authored by Issam Kobrsi, Wenjun Zheng, John E. Knox, Mary Jane Heeg, H. Bernhard Schlegel, Charles H. WinterTreatment of 3,5-diisopropyltriazole, 3,5-diphenyltriazole, 3,5-di-3-pyridyltriazole, phenyltetrazole, pyrrolidinyltetrazole,
or tert-butyltetrazole with equimolar quantities of potassium hydride and 18-crown-6 in tetrahydrofuran at ambient
temperature led to slow hydrogen evolution and formation of (3,5-diisopropyl-1,2,4-triazolato)(18-crown-6)potassium
(88%), (3,5-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazolato)(tetrahydrofuran)(18-crown-6)potassium (87%), (3,5-di-3-pyridyl-1,2,4-triazolato)(18-crown-6)potassium (81%), (phenyltetrazolato)(18-crown-6)potassium (94%), (pyrrolidinyltetrazolato)(18-crown-6)potassium (90%), and (tert-butyltetrazolato)(18-crown-6)potassium (94%) as colorless crystalline solids. (1,2,4-Triazolato)(18-crown-6)potassium was isolated as a hemi-hydrate in 81% yield upon treatment of 1,2,4-triazole
with potassium metal in tetrahydrofuran. The X-ray crystal structures of these new complexes were determined,
and the solid-state structures consist of the nitrogen heterocycles bonded to the (18-crown-6)potassium cationic
fragments with η2-bonding interactions. In addition, (3,5-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazolato)(tetrahydrofuran)(18-crown-6)potassium has one coordinated tetrahydrofuran ligand on the same face as the 3,5-diphenyl-1,2,4-triazolato ligand,
while (3,5-di-3-pyridyl-1,2,4-triazolato)(18-crown-6)potassium forms a polymeric solid through coordination of the
distal 3-pyridyl nitrogen atoms to the potassium ion on the face opposite the 1,2,4-triazolato ligand. The solid-state
structures of the new complexes show variable asymmetry in the potassium−nitrogen distances within the η2-interactions and also show variable bending of the heterocyclic C2N3 and CN4 cores toward the best plane of the
18-crown-6 ligand oxygen atoms. Molecular orbital and natural bond order calculations were carried out at the
B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) level of theory on the model complex, (phenyltetrazolato)(18-crown-6)potassium, and demonstrate
that the asymmetric potassium−nitrogen distances and bending of the CN4 core toward the 18-crown-6 ligand are
due to hydrogen bond-like interactions between filled nitrogen-based orbitals and carbon−hydrogen σ* orbitals on
the 18-crown-6 ligands. Calculations carried out on the model pentazolato complex (pentazolato)(18-crown-6)potassium predict a structure in which the pentazolato ligand N5 core is bent by 45° toward the best plane of the
18-crown-6 oxygen atoms. Such bending is induced by the formation of intramolecular nitrogen−hydrogen−carbon
hydrogen bonds. Examination of the solid-state structures of the new complexes reveals many intramolecular and
intermolecular nitrogen−hydrogen distances of ≤3.0 Å which support the presence of nitrogen−hydrogen−carbon
hydrogen bonds.
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potassium hydrideheterocyclic C 2NCN 4 coreCN 4 coresPentazolato Ligandsdiambient temperaturediphenylinteractiontetrahydrofuran ligandpentazolato ligand N 5 corenitrogen heterocyclespotassium metalbond order calculationsTheoretical Studymodel pentazolatohydrogen evolutionequimolar quantitiesB 3LYP levelcomplexes showpotassium ion
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