Replacing mercury: syntheses of lanthanoid pyrazolates from free lanthanoid metals, pentafluorophenylsilver, and pyrazoles, aided by a facile synthesis of polyfluoroarylsilver compounds

Zhifang Guo; Jenny Luu; Victoria Blair; Glen B. Deacon; Peter C. Junk

doi:10.1002/ejic.201801481

Replacing mercury: syntheses of lanthanoid pyrazolates from free lanthanoid metals, pentafluorophenylsilver, and pyrazoles, aided by a facile synthesis of polyfluoroarylsilver compounds

Zhifang Guo, Jenny Luu, Victoria Blair, Glen B. Deacon, Peter C. Junk

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The polyfluorophenylsilver complexes [Ag ₂ (C ₆ F ₄ Br-4) ₂ (py) ₃ ] (py = pyridine) (1) and [{Ag ₂ R ₂ (py) ₂ } _n ] [R = C ₆ F ₅ (2); C ₆ F ₄ Br-3 (3); C ₆ F ₄ H-4 (4)] were prepared in reasonable yields by reactions of silver(I) oxide with the appropriate polyfluorobenzenes in pyridine. This simple and convenient synthesis is selective and does not lead to debromination of C ₆ HF ₄ Br-(3 or 4). Complex 1 is dinuclear with AgR ₂ and Ag(py) ₃ units linked by a bridging polyfluoroaryl group and Ag···Ag interactions, whereas 2–4 are polymeric with alternating AgR ₂ and Ag(py) ₂ units similarly linked. The trivalent lanthanoid pyrazolates, [Ln(Ph ₂ pz) ₃ (py) ₂ ]·2thf (Ph ₂ pz = 3,5-diphenylpyrazolate; Ln = Yb, 5, Er, 6, Dy, 7, Lu, 8; thf = tetrahydrofuran), [Ho(Ph ₂ pz) ₃ (py)(thf)] (9), [Ln(Ph ₂ pz) ₃ (py)(dme)]·solv (Ln = Tb, solv = 1.75PhMe, 10, Gd, solv = 1.5dme, 11; dme = 1,2-dimethoxyethane; PhMe = toluene), [Ln(Ph ₂ pz) ₃ (thf) ₃ ] (Ln = La, 12, Ce, 13, Nd, 14), [Ln(tBu ₂ pz) ₃ (py) ₂ ] (tBu ₂ pz = 3,5-di-tert-butylpyrazolate; Ln = Yb, 15, Tm, 16, Ho, 17, Dy, 18), [Yb(Phtpz) ₃ (py) ₂ ]·PhMe (19) (Phtpz = 3-Phenyl-5-(2′-thienyl)pyrazolate) and [Nd(ttfpz) ₃ (dme) ₂ ] (20) (ttfpz = 3-(2′-thienyl)-5-(trifluoromethyl)pyrazolate) have been prepared by redox transmetallation/protolysis (RTP) reactions employing lanthanoid metals, pentafluorophenylsilver and the corresponding pyrazoles (pzH) in donor solvents. This is a new synthetic route in which AgC ₆ F ₅ replaces the more commonly used Hg(C ₆ F ₅ ) ₂ or HgPh ₂ . Yields are good to excellent if long crystallization times are used but the heavier Ln metals require activation with iodine to induce reaction. The monomeric structures exhibit η ² -bound pyrazolate ligands with eight-coordinate metal atoms for complexes 5–9 and 15–19, nine-coordinate metal atoms for complexes 10–14, and ten-coordinate metal atoms for complex 20.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1018-1029
Number of pages	12
Journal	European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
Volume	2019
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201801481
Publication status	Published - 21 Feb 2019

Keywords

Crystal structures
Lanthanoid pyrazolates
Protolysis (RT/RTP) reactions
Redox transmetallation
Silver polyfluorophenyls

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Replacing mercury: syntheses of lanthanoid pyrazolates from free lanthanoid metals, pentafluorophenylsilver, and pyrazoles, aided by a facile synthesis of polyfluoroarylsilver compounds. / Guo, Zhifang; Luu, Jenny; Blair, Victoria et al.
In: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 2019, No. 7, 21.02.2019, p. 1018-1029.

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