title: Zirconocene-iridium hydrido complexes: arene carbon-hydrogen bond activation and formation of a planar square Zr2Ir2 complex.
abstract: New early-late heterobimetallic hydrides (L(2)ZrCl)(Cp*Ir)(mu-H)(3) (1; L = Cp derivative, Cp* = eta(5)-C(5)Me(5)) were synthesized from zirconocene derivatives (L(2)ZrCl(2)) and LiCp*IrH(3) via a salt elimination reaction and structurally characterized by NMR and X-ray analyses. Upon treatment of 1 with an alkyllithium reagent, hydride abstraction complex 4 underwent thermolytic ligand elimination at the Zr-Ir system to yield a novel planar square complex (L(2)Zr)(2)(Cp*Ir)(2)(mu(3)-H)(4) (2). When a labeling study of the reaction was conducted, it was found that the conversion of 1 to 2 involves rapid aromatic and benzylic C-H activation by a coordinatively unsaturated dinuclear complex (L(2)Zr)(Cp*Ir)(H)(2) (3).
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.
authors.forename: Masataka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oishi
authors.forename: Hiroharu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki