Gold and silver complexes with the ferrocenyl phosphine FcCH2PPh2

E M Barranco; O Crespo; M Concepción Gimeno; A Laguna; P G Jones; B Ahrens

doi:10.1021/ic9905446

Gold and silver complexes with the ferrocenyl phosphine FcCH2PPh2

Inorg Chem. 2000 Feb 21;39(4):680-7. doi: 10.1021/ic9905446.

Authors

E M Barranco¹, O Crespo, M Concepción Gimeno, A Laguna, P G Jones, B Ahrens

Affiliation

¹ Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, Spain.

PMID: 11272561
DOI: 10.1021/ic9905446

Abstract

Linear gold(I) and silver(I) complexes with the ferrocenyl phosphine FcCH2PPh2 [Fc = (eta5-C5H5)Fe(eta5-C5H4)] of the types [AuR(PPh2CH2Fc)], [M(PPh3)(PPh2CH2Fc)]OTf, and [M(PPh2CH2Fc)2]OTf (M = Au, Ag) have been obtained. Three-coordinate gold(I) and silver(I) derivatives of the types [AuCl(PPh2CH2Fc)2] and [M(PPh2CH2Fc)3]X (M = Au, X = ClO4; M = Ag, X = OTf) have been obtained from the corresponding gold and silver precursors in the appropriate molar ratio, although some of them are involved in equilibria in solution. The crystal structures of [AuR(PPh2CH2Fc)] (R = Cl, C6F5), [AuL(PPh2CH2Fc)]OTf (L = PPh3, FcCH2PPh2), [Au(C6F5)3(PPh2CH2Fc)], and [Ag(PPh2CH2Fc)3]OTf have been determined by X-ray diffraction studies.