European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
4 years ago

Magnesium Reagents Featuring a 1,1′-Bis(o-carborane) Ligand Platform

Magnesium Reagents Featuring a 1,1′-Bis(o-carborane) Ligand Platform
Jonathan C. Axtell, Arnold L. Rheingold, Kent O. Kirlikovali, Milan Gembicky, Rafal M. Dziedzic, Alexander M. Spokoyny
The synthesis of two bis(carboranyl) (bc) magnesium reagents is described. Treatment of 1,1′-bis(o-carborane) (H2-bc) or 8,8′,9,9′,10,10′,12,12′-octamethyl-1,1′-bis(o-carborane) (H2-Mebc) with Mg(nBu)2 in 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) affords (bc)Mg(DME)2 (1a,b) as crystalline solids. The magnesium compounds, which have been characterized by NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray crystallography in the case of 1a, serve as competent Grignard-type reagents to generate bc-containing species of tin from Me2SnCl2 (2a,b). The type of substitution of the bis(o-carboranyl) ligand framework is found to strongly affect the electronic character of the tin center, as judged by 119Sn NMR spectroscopy. The disclosed compounds, which are stable solids under an atmosphere of dry nitrogen gas at room temperature, provide a new class of bc-transfer reagents.A well-defined class of Mg-based 1,1′-bis(o-carborane) reagents was prepared and used for group-transfer chemistry toward Sn-based electrophiles. The boron-cluster-based ligand, which behaves as a strongly electron-withdrawing substituent, presents a frontier molecular orbital picture distinct from those of analogous biphenyl-based compounds.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201700604

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