The synthesis, electrochemistry and molecular structure of [Fe(η 5-C 5H 4S) 2Mo(NO){HB(3,5-Me 2C 3N 2H) 3}]

• Published in: Journal of organometallic chemistry Vol. 371; no. 2; pp. C31 - C34
• Main Authors: Sidebotham, R.Peter, Beer, Paul D., Hamor, Thomas A., Jones, Christopher J., McCleverty, Jon A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lausanne Elsevier B.V 25.07.1989; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Chemistry; Condensed matter: structure, mechanical and thermal properties; Exact sciences and technology; Organic chemistry; Organic compounds; Organometalloidal and organometallic compounds; Physics; Preparations and properties; Structure of solids and liquids; crystallography; Structure of specific crystalline solids; Transition metals derivatives; Cationic complex; Iron Organic compounds; Transition metal Nitrosyl Complexes; Iron Molybdenum Nitrosyl Complexes; Thiolate; Heteronuclear complex; Dinuclear complex; Organic ligand; Metallocene; Crystalline structure
• ISSN: 0022-328X; 1872-8561
• DOI: 10.1016/0022-328X(89)88033-7

The new bimetallic complex [Fe(η 5-C 5H 4S) 2Mo(NO){HB(3,5-Me 2C 3N 2H) 3)}] has been obtained from the reaction between [Fe(η 5-C 5H 4SH) 2] and [Mo(NO){HB(3,5-Me 2C 3N 2H) 3}I 2]. Electrochemical studies reveal an anomalously cathodic oxidation potential for the metallocene redox centre. An X-ray diffraction study has revealed an FMo distance of 4.147(2) Å, with the ferrocenyl moiety oriented towards the nitrosyl ligand on the molybdenum atoms (Fe---O 3.976(6) Å), but provides no evidence for an interaction between the iron atom and the molybdenum-bound nitrosyl which might account for the electrochemical findings.