Electrophilic terminal arsinidene-iron(0) complexes with a two-coordinated arsenic atom

Mahendra K Sharma; Beate Neumann; Hans-Georg Stammler; Diego M Andrada; Rajendra S Ghadwal

doi:10.1039/c9cc08630g

Electrophilic terminal arsinidene-iron(0) complexes with a two-coordinated arsenic atom

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Dec 3;55(97):14669-14672. doi: 10.1039/c9cc08630g.

Authors

Mahendra K Sharma¹, Beate Neumann, Hans-Georg Stammler, Diego M Andrada, Rajendra S Ghadwal

Affiliation

¹ Anorganische Molekülchemie und Katalyse, Lehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie und Strukturchemie, Centrum für Molekulare Materialien, Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstr. 25, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany. rghadwal@uni-bielefeld.de.

PMID: 31746858
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc08630g

Abstract

The first terminal arsinidene complexes [{(NHC)C(Ph)}As]Fe(CO)4 (NHC = IPr = C{(NDipp)CH}25, Me-IPr = C{(NDipp)CMe}26; Dipp = 2,6-iPr2C6H3) with a two-coordinated arsenic atom have been reported as crystalline solids. Calculations suggest that 5 and 6 are electrophilic, which has been demonstrated by the reaction of 5 with an NHC nucleophile (IMe4), affording the Lewis adduct [{(IPr)C(Ph)}As(IMe4)]Fe(CO)4 (7) (IMe4 = C(NMeCMe)2).