Osmium carbonyl hydride complex, addition

Organometallic compounds with a 17-electron configuration are often labile toward associative ligand exchange. Radical chain mechanisms are well established for phosphine substitution on metal carbonyl hydrides (Scheme 23), the 17-electron chain carrier being in most cases non hydridic. This mechanism, however, was also shown to operate for OsH2(CO)4 via the 17-electron hydride complex OsH(CO)4 [137]. Thus, phosphine addition to the radical prevails over the dimerization, which indeed occurs in the absence of phosphine [33] (section 6.5.7), and over other possible decomposition pathways. The second step of the chain propagation process in Scheme 23, for this osmium system, is another example of atom transfer to a hydride radical (section 6.5.6). 

The first mixed-metal cluster of Os-Pd, [Os6Pd(bipy)(CO)i8], was reported in 1994, and since then a variety of mixed-metal cluster that contain various Os Pd ratios have been created. Palladium-pyridine complexes appear to be useful reagents in the synthesis of mixed-metal clusters with osmium carbonyl compounds. " The reaction of the coordinately unsaturated cluster [Os3(yu-H)2(CO)io] with [Pd(NH3)2l2] afforded a number of Os-Pd clusters with a high hydride content. " Both palladium phosphine and bidentate phosphine complexes are useful in the preparation of high-nuclearity mixed-metal clusters. The reaction of [Os3(/i-H)2(CO)io] with [Pd2(/i-dppm)2Cl2] gave 258 and 259, in addition to 260, with the same metal core, " in which the molecule contains a twofold symmetry axis. " " ... 

Osmium(n).—Group VII Donors. Hydrido- and halogeno-carbonyl complexes. Carbonylation of [OsHX(CO)(PCy3)2] has produced the novel dicarbonyl hydride [OsHX(CO)2(PCy3)2] (X = Cl or Br Cy = tricyclohexyl).17 I.r. and n.m.r. data indicate the geometry (17). Addition of other ligands to the five-co-ordinate... 

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