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Mono- and bis-(iminophosphoranyl)methane titanium complexes
Babu, Ruppa P. Kamalesh,McDonald, Robert,Cavell, Ronald G.
, p. 2210 - 2214 (2008/10/08)
The reaction of the bis(iminophosphoranyl)methanes, CH2(R2P=NSiMe3)2 (R = Ph 1, Me 2 or Cy 3) with two equivalents of Cp*TiCl3 (Cp* = C5Me5) gave, via elimination of two moles of trimethylsilyl chloride, the air and moisture sensitive bimetallic titanium bis(iminophosphoranyl)methane complexes, [(Cp*TiCl2)2{μ-(N=PR2)2CH 2-κN,N′}] (R = Ph 7, Me 8 or Cy 9). The monometallated complexes, [Cp*TiCl2{(N=PR2)CH2(R2P=NSiMe 3)-κN}] (R = Ph 4, Me 5 or Cy 6) were observed as intermediates in the reaction by 31P NMR spectroscopy but attempts to isolate the pure monosubstituted products from reactions of the bis(silyliminophosphoranyl)methane and the titanium reagent conducted under equimolar stoichiometry were not successful; instead only mixtures of the mono-and di-substituted complexes were generated. Crystal structures of 7 and 8 revealed different molecular structures; in 7 the imidotitanium groups lie in a mutual trans orientation across the molecule whereas in 8 they lie on the same side of the molecule.