title: Synthesis, characterization, and ligand exchange studies of W(6)S(8)L(6) cluster compounds.
abstract: Eleven organic Lewis bases were investigated as potential ligands (L) on W(6)S(8)L'(6) clusters by exploring ligand exchange reactions to form W(6)S(8)L(6) clusters. Six new homoleptic W(6)S(8)L(6) cluster complexes were prepared and characterized with L = tri-n-butylphosphine (P(n)Bu(3)), triphenylphosphine (PPh(3)), tert-butylisocyanide ((t)BuNC), morpholine, methylamine (MeNH(2)), and tert-butylamine ((t)BuNH(2)). While partial replacement of ligands occurred with diethylamine (Et(2)NH) and dibutylamine (Bu(2)NH), homoleptic clusters could not be prepared by these exchange reactions. When aniline, tribenzylamine, and tri-tert-butylphosphine were the potential ligands, no exchange was observed. From ligand exchange studies of these ligands and others previously studied, a thermodynamic series of binding free energies for ligands on W(6)S(8)L(6) clusters was established as the following: non-Lewis base solvents, aniline, P(t)()Bu(3), etc. << Et(2)NH, Bu(2)NH < (t)BuNH(2) < morpholine, piperidine < or = (n)BuNH(2), MeNH(2) < or = 4-tert-butylpyridine, pyridine < (t)BuNC < tricyclohexylphosphine (PCy(3)) < PPh(3), P(n)Bu(3) < or = triethylphosphine (PEt(3)). Structures of the new cluster complexes were determined by X-ray crystallography. The new compounds were also characterized by NMR spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analyses (TGA). The W-L bond orders and TGA data qualitatively agree with the thermodynamic series above.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratories, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Scheuer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Adamchuk
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Rayburn
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: DiSalvo