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Aminotroponiminates: Impact of the NO₂ Functional Group on Coordination, Isomerisation, and Backbone Substitution.

ABSTRACT: Aminotroponiminate (ATI) ligands are a versatile class of redox-active and potentially cooperative ligands with a rich coordination chemistry that have consequently found a wide range of applications in synthesis and catalysis. While backbone substitution of these ligands has been investigated in some detail, the impact of electron-withdrawing groups on the coordination chemistry and reactivity of ATIs has been little investigated. We report here Li, Na, and K salts of an ATI ligand with a nitro-substituent in the backbone. It is demonstrated that the NO₂ group actively contributes to the coordination chemistry of these complexes, effectively competing with the N,N-binding pocket as a coordination site. This results in an unprecedented E/Z isomerisation of an ATI imino group and culminates in the isolation of the first "naked" (i. e., without directional bonding to a metal atom) ATI anion. Reactions of sodium ATIs with silver(I) and tritylium salts gave the first N,N-coordinated silver ATI complexes and unprecedented backbone substitution reactions. Analytical techniques applied in this work include multinuclear (VT-)NMR spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis, and DFT calculations.

SUBMITTER: Hanft A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8597084 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Aminotroponiminates: Impact of the NO<sub>2</sub> Functional Group on Coordination, Isomerisation, and Backbone Substitution.

Hanft Anna A Rottschäfer Dennis D Wieprecht Nele N Geist Felix F Radacki Krzysztof K Lichtenberg Crispin C

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20210831 57

Aminotroponiminate (ATI) ligands are a versatile class of redox-active and potentially cooperative ligands with a rich coordination chemistry that have consequently found a wide range of applications in synthesis and catalysis. While backbone substitution of these ligands has been investigated in some detail, the impact of electron-withdrawing groups on the coordination chemistry and reactivity of ATIs has been little investigated. We report here Li, Na, and K salts of an ATI ligand with a nitro ...[more]

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