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Scandium Carbene Complexes: Synthesis of Mixed Alkyl, Amido, and Phosphido Derivatives

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posted on 2015-01-12, 00:00 authored by Marie Fustier, Xavier-Frédéric Le Goff, Martin Lutz, J. Chris Slootweg, Nicolas Mézailles
Different synthetic strategies are proposed to obtain a family of scandium carbene complexes. Starting either from scandium trichloride, scandium trisbenzyl, or the known scandium bis­(diphenylthiophosphinoyl)­methanediide chloride complex <b>1</b>, the homoleptic bis-carbene complex [Sc­{C­(PPh<sub>2</sub>S)<sub>2</sub>}<sub>2</sub>Li­(THF)<sub>2</sub>] (<b>3</b>), the alkyl-carbene complex [Sc­{C­(PPh<sub>2</sub>S)<sub>2</sub>}­{CH­(PPh<sub>2</sub>S)<sub>2</sub>}­(THF)] (<b>5</b>), the amido-carbene complex [Sc­{C­(PPh<sub>2</sub>S)<sub>2</sub>}­{N­(SiMe<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>}­(THF)] (<b>7</b>), and the phosphido-carbene complex [Sc­{C­(PPh<sub>2</sub>S)<sub>2</sub>}­{P­(SiMe<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>}­(Py)<sub>2</sub>] (<b>8</b>) were obtained. The influence of the nature of the anionic ligand in <i>trans</i> position to the carbene ligand on the geometries at Sc was probed by DFT calculations in the case of complexes <b>7</b> and <b>8</b>.

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