Contrasting the Group 6 metal-metal bonding in sodium dichromate(II) and sodium dimolybdate(II) polymethyl complexes : synthetic, x-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies

Campbell, Ross and Kennedy, Alan R. and McLellan, Ross and Robertson, Stuart D. and Sproules, Stephen and Mulvey, Robert E. (2017) Contrasting the Group 6 metal-metal bonding in sodium dichromate(II) and sodium dimolybdate(II) polymethyl complexes : synthetic, x-ray crystallographic and theoretical studies. Dalton Transactions, 46. pp. 6392-6403. ISSN 1477-9226 (https://doi.org/10.1039/C6DT04644D)

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Abstract

Extending the class of group 6 metal-metal bonded methylate compounds supported by alkali metal counter-ions, the first sodium octamethylmolybdate(II) complex [(TMEDA)Na]4Mo2Me8 and heptamethylchromate(II) relations [(donor)Na]3Cr2Me7 (donor is TMEDA or TMCDA) are reported. The former was made by treating [(Et2O)Li]4Mo2Me8 with four equivalents of NaOtBu/TMEDA in ether; whereas the latter resulted from introducing TMEDA or TMCDA to ether solutions of octamethyldichromate [(Et2O)Na]4Cr2Me8. X-ray crystallography revealed [(TMEDA)Na]4Mo2Me8 is dimeric with square pyramidal Mo centres [including a short Mo–Mo interaction of 2.1403(3) Å] each with four methyl groups in a mutually eclipsed conformation. In dinuclear [(TMCDA)Na]3Cr2Me7 trigonal bi-pyramidal Cr centres each bond to three terminal methyl groups and one common Me bridge, that produces a strikingly short Cr–Cr contact of 1.9136(4) Å. Broken symmetry density functional theoretical calculations expose the multiconfigurational metal-metal bonding in these compounds with a Mo–Mo bond order of 3 computed for octamethylmolybdate(II). This is contrasted by the single Cr–Cr bond in heptamethylchromate(II) where the singlet ground state is derived by strong antiferromagnetic coupling between adjacent metal ions.

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Campbell, Ross, Kennedy, Alan R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3652-6015, McLellan, Ross ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9700-0258, Robertson, Stuart D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9330-8770, Sproules, Stephen and Mulvey, Robert E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1015-2564;
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