A novel facet of carbonyliron-diene photochemistry: The η4-s-trans isomer of the classical Fe(CO)3(η4-s-cis-1,3-butadiene) discovered by time-resolved IR spectroscopy and theoretically examined by density functional methods
A novel facet of carbonyliron-diene photochemistry: The η4-s-trans isomer of the classical Fe(CO)3(η4-s-cis-1,3-butadiene) discovered by time-resolved IR spectroscopy and theoretically examined by density functional methods
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DOI:
10.1021/om020785c
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发表时间:
2003-04-14
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2.8
通讯作者:
Schaffner, K
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作者:
Bachler, V;Grevels, FW;Schaffner, K
The photolysis of Fe(CO)3(η4-s-cis-1,3-butadiene) (1) and Fe(CO)4(η2-1,3-butadiene) (2), formerly studied in low-temperature matrixes, is reexamined in cyclohexane solution at ambient temperature using time-resolved IR spectroscopy in the ν(CO) region. Flash photolysis of2(λexc= 308 nm) generates Fe(CO)3(η4-s-trans-1,3-butadiene) (5) as a transient product, which then rearranges to form the classical η4-s-cis-1,3-butadiene complex1. Species5, previously addressed as the coordinately unsaturated Fe(CO)3(η2-1,3-butadiene) (3), is also photogenerated from1, in this case along with the very short-lived CO loss fragment Fe(CO)2(η4-1,3-butadiene) (τ < 4 μs under CO atmosphere). It decays by temperature-dependent first-order kinetics (τ = 13 ms at 25 °C; ΔH⧧= 17.3 kcal·mol-1) with nearly complete recovery of1. According to density functional calculations at the BP86 level of theory,5resides in a distinct energy minimum, 20.3 kcal·mol-1above1and separated from it by a barrier of 15.0 kcal·mol-1. Its computed structure involves a diene dihedral angle of 129°. Species3(with a diene dihedral angle of −150.1°), by contrast, is predicted to exist in a rather flat minimum, which makes it too short-lived for detection with our instrumentation. Flash photolysis of Fe(CO)5generates the very short-lived (<1 μs) doubly unsaturated Fe(CO)3(solv) species in addition to the familiar Fe(CO)4(solv) fragment (τ = 10−15 μs), Fe2(CO)9being the ultimate product in the absence of potential trapping agents other than CO. Deliberate contamination of the system with water gives rise to the formation of Fe(CO)4(H2O) as a longer lived transient (ca. 1 ms). In the presence of 1,3-butadiene, both2and5appear almost instantaneously. The latter decays, again in the millisecond time range, with formation of1, thus providing clear evidence of a single-photon route from Fe(CO)5to1in addition to the established two-photon sequence via the monosubstituted complex2.