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Instantaneous and Phosphine-Catalyzed Arene Binding and Reduction by U(III) Complexes

2021; American Chemical Society; Volume: 60; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00327

1520-510X

Polly L. Arnold, Connor J. V. Halliday, Laura Puig-Urrea, Gary S. Nichol,

Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

Neutral arenes such as benzene have never been considered suitable ligands for electropositive actinide cations, yet we find that even simple UIII UX3 aryloxide complexes such as U(ODipp)3 bind and reduce arenes spontaneously at room temperature, forming inverse arene sandwich (IAS) complexes XnU(μ-C6D6)UXm (X = ODipp, n=2, m=3; X = OBMes2 n=m=2 or 3) (ODipp = OC6H3iPr2-2,6; Mes = 2,4,6-Me3-C6H2). In some of these cases, further arene reduction has occured as a result of X ligand redistribution. These unexpected spontaneous reactions explain the anomalous spectra and reported lack of further reactivity of strongly reducing UIII centers of U(ODipp)3. Phosphines that are not considered suitable ligands for actinides can catalyze the formation of the IAS complexes. This enables otherwise inaccessible asymmetric and less congested IAS complexes to be isolated and the bonding in this series compared.