Metal-Metal Bonding in Late Transition-Metal [M$_2$L$_5$] Complexes: Exploring the Limits of the Isolobal Analogy between the CO and AlCp* Ligands - Publications ayant eu recours aux supercalculateurs du GENCI
Journal Articles Inorganic Chemistry Year : 2023

Metal-Metal Bonding in Late Transition-Metal [M$_2$L$_5$] Complexes: Exploring the Limits of the Isolobal Analogy between the CO and AlCp* Ligands

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Late dinuclear transition-metal (especially group 10 and 11) homoleptic carbonyl complexes are elusive species and have so far not been isolated. A typical example is the 30-electron species [Ni(2)(CO)(5)], the structure and bonding of which is still debated. We show that, by using the AlCp* ligand (isolobal to CO), it is possible to isolate and fully characterize [Ni(2)(AlCp*)(5)] (1), which inspired us to revisit by DFT calculations, the bonding situation within [Ni(2)L(5)] (L = CO, AlCp*) and other isoelectronic species. The short Ni-Ni X-ray distance in 1 (2.270 Å) should not be attributed to the existence of a typical localized triple-bond between the metals, but rather to a strong through-bond interaction involving the three bridging ligands via their donating lone pairs and accepting π* orbitals. In contrast, in the isostructural 32-electron [Au(2)(AlCp*)(5)] (2) cluster an orbital with M-M antibonding and Al...Al bonding character is occupied, which is in accordance with the particularly long Au-Au distance (3.856 Å) and rather short Al...Al contacts between the bridging ligands (2.843 Å). This work shows that, unlike late transition-metal [M(2)(CO)(x)] species, stable [M(2)(AlCp*)(x)] complexes can be isolated, owing to the subtle differences between CO and AlCp*. We propose a similar approach for rationalizing the bonding in the emblematic 34 electron species [Fe(2)(CO)(9)].
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hal-04166210 , version 1 (10-09-2024)

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Julius Hornung, Maximilian Muhr, Max Schutz, Patricia Heiß, Johannes Stephan, et al.. Metal-Metal Bonding in Late Transition-Metal [M$_2$L$_5$] Complexes: Exploring the Limits of the Isolobal Analogy between the CO and AlCp* Ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, 2023, 62 (29), pp.11381-11389. ⟨10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c00866⟩. ⟨hal-04166210⟩
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