Synthesis and structure of a rhenium(V) complex containing a tridentate imido-coordinated Schiff base

  • Irvin Booysen Department of Chemistry, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 6031 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
  • Thomas I.A. Gerber Department of Chemistry, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 6031 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
  • Eric Hosten Department of Chemistry, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 6031 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
  • Peter Mayer Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University, D-81377 München, Germany
DOI: 10.4314/bcse.v22i1.61342
Keywords: Reduction of perrhenate, Rhenium(V), Imido donor atom, Crystal structure

Abstract

The six-coordinate complex [Re(mps)Cl2(PPh3)] (1) (H3mps = N-(2-amino-3-methylphenyl) salicylideneimine) was prepared by the reaction of [NH4][ReO4] with H3mps in the presence of triphenylphosphine and hydrochloric acid in glacial acetic acid. Crystallization from acetonitrile gave the product 1.CH3CN. The compound was characterized by spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. The results show that the tridentate mps ligand coordinates via the doubly deprotonated 2-amino nitrogen (which is present in 1 as an imide), the neutral imino nitrogen and the phenolate oxygen. The imide and phenolate oxygen are trans to each other in a distorted octahedral geometry around the rhenium(V) centre, with the two chlorides in cis positions.

 

KEY WORDS: Reduction of perrhenate, Rhenium(V), Imido donor atom, Crystal structure

 

 

Bull. Chem. Soc. Ethiop. 2008, 22(1), 101-105.

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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2008)
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