Crystal structures of two new six-coordinate iron(III) complexes with 1,2-bis(diphenyl-phosphane) ligands.

ABSTRACT: Structural characterization of the ionic complexes [FeCl2(C26H22P2)2][FeCl4]·0.59CH2Cl2 or [(dppen)2FeCl2][FeCl4]·0.59CH2Cl2 (dppen = cis-1,2-bis-(di-phenyl-phosphane)ethyl-ene, P2C26H22) and [FeCl2(C30H24P2)2][FeCl4]·CH2Cl2 or [(dpbz)2FeCl2][FeCl4]·CH2Cl2 (dpbz = 1,2-bis-(di-phenyl-phosphane)benzene, P2C30H24) demonstrates trans coordination of two bidentate phosphane ligands (bis-phosphanes) to a single iron(III) center, resulting in six-coordinate cationic complexes that are balanced in charge by tetra-chlorido-ferrate(III) monoanions. The trans bis-phosphane coordination is consistent will all previously reported mol-ecular structures of six coordinate iron(III) complex cations with a (PP)2X2 (X = halido) donor set. The complex with dppen crystallizes in the centrosymmetric space group C2/c as a partial-occupancy [0.592?(4)] di-chloro-methane solvate, while the dpbz-ligated complex crystallizes in the triclinic space group P1 as a full di-chloro-methane monosolvate. Furthermore, the crystal studied of [(dpbz)2FeCl2][FeCl4]·CH2Cl2 was an inversion twin, whose component mass ratio refined to 0.76?(3):0.24?(3). Beyond a few very weak C-H?Cl and C-H?? inter-actions, there are no significant supra-molecular features in either structure.

SUBMITTER: McNeil DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6002827 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other