Amido ligand

A review article entitled "Bulky amido ligands in rare-earth chemistry Syntheses, structures, and catalysis" has been published by Roesky. Benzamidinate ligands are briefly mentioned in this contexD The use of bulky benzamidinate ligands in organolanthanide chemistry was also briefly mentioned in a review article by Okuda et al. devoted to "Cationic alkyl complexes of the rare-earth metals S mthesis, structure, and reactivity." Particularly mentioned in this article are reactions of neutral bis(alkyl) lanthanide benzamidinates with [NMe2HPh][BPh4] which result in the formation of thermally robust ion pairs (Scheme 55). ... 

The proposed reaction mechanism involves intermolecular nucleophilic addition of the amido ligand to the olefin to produce a zwitterionic intermediate, followed by proton transfer to form a new copper amido complex. Reaction with additional amine (presnmably via coordination to Cn) yields the hydroamination prodnct and regenerates the original copper catalyst (Scheme 2.15). In addition to the NHC complexes 94 and 95, copper amido complexes with the chelating diphosphine l,2-bis-(di-tert-bntylphosphino)-ethane also catalyse the reaction [81, 82]. 

Note that carbon monoxide inserts into the Zr-H bond of 1 (2 equiv.) to afford an T -formaldehydo-type complex [(Cp2ZrCl)]2(g-CH20) [200-202]. Iminoacyl zir-conocene complexes are formed after addition of 1 to isonitriles [203]. Carbon dioxide [183, 202] is reduced to formaldehyde with 1 (2 equiv.). C02-like molecules such as isocyanates RNCO [204], isothiocyanates RNCS [205], and carbodiimides RNCNR [204] are readily converted to the corresponding bidentate form-amido ligands. 

Complexes with chelating amino and amido ligands 286... 

Linear multinuclear metal complexes are attracting attention in the context of molecular electronics due to their projected use as molecular wires. 01igo(pyridyl)amido ligands are efficient scaffolds for lining up several Ni11 ions like a string. The first structurally characterized trinickel complex of this type, [Ni3(dpa)4Cl2] (dpa = bis(2-pyridyl)amide), showed a nearly linear Ni3 unit with Ni—Ni distances of around 244 pm.209 Penta-, hepta-, and nonanuclear systems have... 

Reduction of Ni11 chloride complexes [NiCl2(L)] (L = various diphosphinomethanes, -ethanes, and -propanes) with, for example, potassium naphthalenide in THF gives the corresponding Ni1 chlorides [NiCl(L)].2368 By treatment of (963) with LiNHAr, a terminal amido complex of Ni1 (964) was prepared (Scheme 13).2369 It contains planar three-coordinate nickel and a planar amido ligand with d(Ni—N) = 1.881(2) A. The P,Ni,P and C,N,H planes are orthogonal with a 91° dihedral angle. 

In the first structurally characterized complexes of type A the metal-phosphorus triple bonds are kinetically stabilized by bulky substituents at the amido ligands. Therefore, these compounds reveal exclusively end-on reactivity via the phosphorus lone pair. This reactivity pattern seems also valid for the solution stable alkoxide derivative [(C/0)3Mo=P], for which the reaction potential is under investigation [13]. In contrast, due to their lesser degree of kinetic stabilization by bulky substituents the short-lived alkoxide containing complexes [(R 0)3W=Pj (R =t-Bu (3c), Ph (3d)), generated by the metathesis reaction between the alkoxide-dimer and the phosphaalkyne (cf. Eq. 8), show additionally a high side-on reactivity towards the phos-phaalkynes of the reaction mixture. Thus, there occurs a formal cycloaddition reaction with the phosphaalkynes, and a subsequent 1,3-OR shift yields the formation of four-membered diphospha-metallo-cyclobutane derivatives 6(Eq. 8) [15,31, 37]. 

Fig. 3) show n orbitals to be the HOMO orbitals. Thus, the primary reactivity pattern should be the side-on reactivity. However, this reactivity is generally not allowed in the phosphido complexes with tris-amido ligand sets due to their kinetic stabilization by bulky substituents. Therefore, experimentally, only the less crowded and more flexible alkoxide complexes 18 and 21 show the anticipated side-on access to the triple bond. 

An unusual osmium(Vl) monooxo species stabilized by amido ligands, [Os (0)(tmen-2H)(tmen-H)]" ", has been prepared by treatment of [0s (0)2(tmen)2] " (97b) with a base such as collidine in acetonitrile." The crystal structure of the perchlorate salt has been determined the osmium atom is displaced 0.67 A from the plane of the four N atoms. The Os=0 distance is 1.72 A, and the Os—N distances of 1.85 A and 1.99 A indicate double bond character. 

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