Syntheses of Cu(I) polymetallic assemblies from reaction of ligands bearing the 2,5-bis(2-pyridyl)phosphole fragment with Cu(II) precursors

Mehdi El Sayed Moussa; Fabian Friess; Wenting Shen; Muriel Hissler; Régis Réau; Christophe Lescop

doi:10.1039/c3cc42955e

Syntheses of Cu(I) polymetallic assemblies from reaction of ligands bearing the 2,5-bis(2-pyridyl)phosphole fragment with Cu(II) precursors

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Jul 14;49(55):6158-60. doi: 10.1039/c3cc42955e.

Authors

Mehdi El Sayed Moussa¹, Fabian Friess, Wenting Shen, Muriel Hissler, Régis Réau, Christophe Lescop

Affiliation

¹ Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 CNRS - Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France.

PMID: 23728359
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc42955e

Abstract

Upon reaction with ligands A, 1 and 3 bearing the 2,5-bis(2-pyridyl)phosphole fragment, an unexpected conversion of Cu(II) metal centers to Cu(I) centers is observed affording either bimetallic complexes bearing a bridging phosphane coordination mode or hexametallic metallacycles.