Sodium and rhodium complexes of a spirocyclic Te5 dianion supported by P2N2 rings

Andreas Nordheider; Kasun S Athukorala Arachchige; Alexandra M Z Slawin; J Derek Woollins; Tristram Chivers

doi:10.1039/c4dt03257h

Sodium and rhodium complexes of a spirocyclic Te5 dianion supported by P2N2 rings

Dalton Trans. 2015 May 21;44(19):8781-3. doi: 10.1039/c4dt03257h.

Authors

Andreas Nordheider¹, Kasun S Athukorala Arachchige, Alexandra M Z Slawin, J Derek Woollins, Tristram Chivers

Affiliation

¹ School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9ST, Scotland, UK. jdw3@st-andrews.ac.uk.

PMID: 25600404
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt03257h

Abstract

Reactions of the dianion [Te((t)BuN)P(μ-N(t)Bu)2P(N(t)Bu)Te](2-) with I2 or [Cp*RhCl2]2 unexpectedly produced complexes of the novel spirocyclic Te5 dianion [{(t)BuN(Te)P(μ-N(t)Bu)2P(Te)N(t)Bu}2μ-Te](2-), which is N,N'-coordinated to two Na(+) ions in the disodium derivative and adopts a Te,Te',Te''-bonding mode in the Cp*Rh complex.