作者: Anne K. Hickey , Marco G. Crestani , Alison R. Fout , Xinfeng Gao , Chun-Hsing Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C4DT01037J
关键词: Photochemistry 、 Crystallography 、 Titanium 、 Cyclohexene 、 Metal 、 Ligand 、 Chemistry 、 Moiety 、 Unpaired electron 、 Cyclohexane 、 Dehydrogenation
摘要: Reacting (PNP)TiCHtBu(CH2tBu) with 2,2′-bipyridine (bipy) in cyclohexane or heptane results dehydrogenation, cleanly producing cyclohexene and 1-heptene, respectively, a TiII intermediate that is trapped by bipy to produce [(PNP)TiIII(CH2tBu)(bipy˙−)] (1). This titanium(II) reduces the ligand upon coordination form TiIII center, where unpaired electron antiferromagnetically coupled of reduced [bipy˙−] π-radical moiety, giving an overall diamagnetic species. Complex 1 has been characterized NMR UV-vis spectroscopies as well single crystal X-ray diffraction studies.