Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
2002, 67, 936-948
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc20020936
Facile Preparation of Chloro-Cage-Substituted 11-Vertex 1-(η6-Arene)-isonido-1,2,4-ruthenacarboranes from [RuCl2(PPh3)3] and nido-5,6-C2B8H12 in Arene Solvents
Vitalii E. Konopleva, Irina V. Pisarevaa, Dmitrii A. Lemenovskiib, Pavel V. Petrovskiia, Oleg L. Toka, Fedor M. Dolgushina and Igor T. Chizhevskya,*
a A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, 28 Vavilov Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia
b M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry, Leninskie Gory, 119899 Moscow, Russia
Abstract
A series of arene-ruthenium 11-vertex complexes 3-Cl-1-(η6-arene)-isonido-1,2,4-RuC2B8H9 (4a-4h) and 6-Cl-1-(η6-arene)-isonido-1,2,4-RuC2B8H9 (5a, 5b, 5f, 5g) (arene = p-xylene (a), mesitylene (b), p-cymene (c), benzene (d), toluene (e), hexamethylbenzene (f), 1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene (g), 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene (h)) have been obtained as isomeric mixtures 4a, 4b, 4f, 4g and 5a, 5b, 5f, 5g or, predominantly, as single isomers 4c-4e, 4h by the treatment of nido-5,6-C2B8H12 (1) with [RuCl2(PPh3)3] (2), either in the corresponding arene solvents at 80-85 °C (in the case of 4a-4e and 5a, 5b) or in the arene/1,2-dichloroethane solution under reflux (in the case of 4f-4h and 5f, 5g) in the presence of N,N,N',N'-tetramethylnaphthalene-1,8-diamine. The compounds prepared were characterized by combination of analytical, IR and multinuclear NMR data, including a crystallographic study of 4b. A possible pathway for the formation of isomeric complexes 4 and 5 is discussed.
Keywords: Ruthenium; Middle carboranes; Boranes; Metallaboranes; Metallacarboranes; isonido-Ruthenacarboranes; NMR spectroscopy, 1H, 11B, 13C, [11B-11B]-COSY; X-Ray diffraction; Arene complexes.
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