In pursuit of natural occurring chiral dienes {(R/S)-carvone} as bidentate ligands for coordination to rhodium(I).

ABSTRACT: Bis-rhodium-mu-chlorido dinuclear complexes with natural occurring limonene-type enantiomeric diene nucleophiles, (S)- and (R)-carvone [SCar and RCar], are presented and their single crystal structures reported. Utilizing the diolefinic bonds of the carvones, mu-[Rh^I(SCar)Cl]₂ (IA/B) and mu-[Rh^I(RCar)Cl]₂ (IIA/B) were obtained in ca. 80% yields in clean reactions with reactant RhCl₃(H₂O)_x. The "structured" chiral nanomaterials (IA/B and IIA/B > 1.1 nm) crystallize as two independent, dinuclear chiral molecules Syn-mu-[Rh^I(SCar)Cl]₂ (IA), Anti-mu-[Rh^I(SCar)Cl

SUBMITTER: Bezuidenhout Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11854040 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature