Arsine complexes tungsten

Although trialkyl- and triarylbismuthines are much weaker donors than the corresponding phosphoms, arsenic, and antimony compounds, they have nevertheless been employed to a considerable extent as ligands in transition metal complexes. The metals coordinated to the bismuth in these complexes include chromium (72—77), cobalt (78,79), iridium (80), iron (77,81,82), manganese (83,84), molybdenum (72,75—77,85—89), nickel (75,79,90,91), niobium (92), rhodium (93,94), silver (95—97), tungsten (72,75—77,87,89), uranium (98), and vanadium (99). The coordination compounds formed from tertiary bismuthines are less stable than those formed from tertiary phosphines, arsines, or stibines. 

Bis-3,4-(trifluoromethyl)-l,2-diselenete 651 is prepared by refluxing selenium with hexafluoro-2-butyne. It reacts with triphenylphosphine and triphenyl-arsine. Triphenylphosphine selenide was isolated, but no other compounds were identified.Ring-opened complexes with nickel, copper, vanadium, molybdenum (652), tungsten, iron, and cobalt are analogous to complexes of the 1,2-dithiete (527) (Section XXXV.2.C.). 

The mass spectra of bimetallic carbonyl metal compounds with cyclic arsine ligands have been discussed (Table 10). Molecular ion peaks are present for the pentamethyl-cyclopentaarsine containing complexes of chromium and tungsten, (AsMe)5[M(CO)]2 (186,188). Their decomposition includes CO and/or M(CO)5 loss giving rise to the ions (AsMe)sM2(CO) + (n = 0-9), (AsMe)sM(CO)/ (n = 0-5), M As Me-" and MAs Me+ (m = 2-4), MjAs Me, M AsMe -" (m = 2-4), MAs (w = 2-5), MAsjCH and AsMOj The latter is the most abundant in the mass spectra . ... 

A cationic Sb(III) ligand is part of the tungsten complex [Cp(CO)2(Me3P)WSb(Me)-(Cl)Bu ]I, which was prepared from tr ns-Cp(CO)2(MeP)WSb(Cl)Bu and Mel in Et20 . The first transition metal complexes containing a metal-arsenic double bond were synthesized in 1983 . Transition metal substituted arsines of the type Cp(CO)3M—AsBu 2 (M = Mo, W) show increased Lewis basicity compared with triorganoarsines R3AS. From the above-mentioned complex one carbonyl is cleavable already at 60 °C (equation 35). 

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