Triple-decker complexes incorporating three distinct deck architectures

Xiaofei Sun; Akhil Kumar Singh; Ravi Yadav; Da Jin; Maria Haimerl; Manfred Scheer; Peter W Roesky

doi:10.1039/d1cc06182h

Triple-decker complexes incorporating three distinct deck architectures

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Jan 13;58(5):673-676. doi: 10.1039/d1cc06182h.

Authors

Xiaofei Sun¹, Akhil Kumar Singh¹, Ravi Yadav¹, Da Jin¹, Maria Haimerl², Manfred Scheer², Peter W Roesky¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstraße 15, Karlsruhe, 76131, Germany. roesky@kit.edu.
² Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Regensburg 93040, Germany.

PMID: 34919113
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc06182h

Abstract

The reactivity of the dilithioplumbole ([Li₂(thf)₂(μ,η⁵-L^Pb)], L^Pb = 1,4-bis-tert-butyl-dimethylsilyl-2,3-bis-phenyl-plumbolyl) towards the reactive pnictogen precursors P₄, pentaphosphaferrocene, and pentaarsaferrocene ([Cp*Fe(η⁵-E₅)] (Cp* = η⁵-C₅Me₅, E = P, As)) is reported. The reaction with P₄ afforded a phospholyl lithium complex, via lead-phosphorus exchange, while the reactions with [Cp*Fe(η⁵-E₅)] yielded the first examples of Pb-Fe-Li heterotrimetallic triple-decker polypnictogenides with three different deck motifs.