Rubidium and Cesium Enediamide Complexes Derived from Bulky 1,4-Diazadienes

Ramesh Duraisamy; Phil Liebing; Nicole Harmgarth; Volker Lorenz; Liane Hilfert; Martin Feneberg; Rüdiger Goldhahn; Felix Engelhardt; Frank T Edelmann

doi:10.1021/acsomega.0c02414

Rubidium and Cesium Enediamide Complexes Derived from Bulky 1,4-Diazadienes

ACS Omega. 2020 Jul 23;5(30):19061-19069. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.0c02414. eCollection 2020 Aug 4.

Authors

Ramesh Duraisamy¹, Phil Liebing¹, Nicole Harmgarth¹, Volker Lorenz¹, Liane Hilfert¹, Martin Feneberg², Rüdiger Goldhahn², Felix Engelhardt¹, Frank T Edelmann¹

Affiliations

¹ Chemisches Institut, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.
² Institut für Physik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.

Abstract

The first rubidium and cesium enediamide complexes based on bulky 1,4-diaza-1,3-diene ligands (DADs) have been prepared by metalation of either 1,4-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-1,4-diaza-1,3-butadiene (1, = ^H2DAD^Dipp) or 1,4-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-2,3-dimethyl-1,4-diaza-1,3-butadiene (2, = ^Me2DAD^Dipp) with an excess of Rb or Cs metals in coordinating solvents such as tetrahydrofuran (THF) or 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME). All new complexes were fully characterized by spectroscopic and analytical methods as well as single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies.