On the Mechanism of Coherent Dihydrogen Tunneling in Transition Metal Trihydrides
On the Mechanism of Coherent Dihydrogen Tunneling in Transition Metal Trihydrides
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过渡金属三氢化物中相干二氢隧穿机理的研究
DOI:
10.1002/anie.199213691
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发表时间:
1992
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通讯作者:
B. Chaudret
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作者:
H. Limbach;G. Scherer;M. Maurer;B. Chaudret
clear complex is remarkably short (2.491(1) A) and results from the unusual arrangement of the five thiolate S atoms which occupy the vertices of a trigonal bipyramid and simultaneously also surround the two metal atoms in a tetrahedral fashion (Fig. 1 right). The cobalt atoms thus occupy the centers of two sulfur tetrahedra, which have a common face (S3-S4-S5). The three bridging ligands are positioned so that the isopropyl groups have a paddlewheel-like arrangement, that is, they are symmetric with respect to a local threefold axis. Two different orientations of the complex anion are found in the crystal which are superimposable by a simple rotation. One of the orientations appears to be energetically favored with an occupancy of approximately 64%. The two CoS, tetrahedra are distorted in a very characteristic manner. The ideal geometry would not only lead to very small bond angles of about 39" at the bridging sulfur atoms, but also to an unrealistically short metal-metal distance of about 1.52 A. The observed structure results from an ideal tetrahedral arrangement when the bipyramid is stretched along the apices until the bonding angles at the bridging atoms approach the mean value of 65.4". At the same time the Co-Co distance increases to 2.491 8, while the mean distance between the three sulfur atoms of the bridging ligands decreases to 3.362 A. Consequently, the mean (p-S)Co-(p-S) angle is also quite small (93.58"). The Co-S bonds of the terminal thiolato ligands are not completely parallel to the Co-Co axis. The slight tilt (8.1 ") gives rise to three different S-Co-(p-S) angles (mean values 11 5.3, 123.2, and 129.1 "). The mean lengths of the Co-(p-S) and Co-S bonds, 2.307 and 2.210 A, respectively (average 2.283 A), are somewhat shorter than those in other thiolatocobalt(I1) complexes; this is especially evident in the comparison with the dinuclear complex anion [Co,(SC,H,),IZ-, in which each Co atom is bound to two terminal and two bridging thiolato ligands. The corresponding values here are 2.355 and 2.270 8, for the syn, and 2.363 and 2.213 8, for the anti The example of synand ~ ~ ~ ~ [ C O , ( S C , H , ) , ] ~ ['I clearly illustrates that in complexes with tetrahedral CoS, units and monofunctional ligands, the change from edgeto facesharing has a drastic influence on the Co-Co distance. For the anti isomer, this change results in an increase of 0.554 to 3.045(2) A (+ 22.2%) relative to 1, and for the syn isomer of 0.529 to 3.020(3) 8, (+ 21.2 %). The situation is somewhat different for complexes that are strained as a result of specific ligand influences, for example [CO,(SCH,C,H,CH,S),]~ with edge-sharing CoS, tetrahedra.lgl Here the bifunctional ligands are bound so that the central Co,(p-S), four-membered ring is significantly folded. Although the Co-Co distance is thereby reduced to 2.786(1) 8,, this value is still 0.3 8, longer than in the title compound 1. These results show that the chemistry of complexes with thiolato ligands is much more diverse than originally assumed. We suggest that the surprising formation of units with tetrahedral coordination which have common faces is controlled by specific electronic properties of the ligands. We already have the first experimental evidence of the existence of novel iron thiolates with bitetrahedral Fe,S, centers.