Diversity of structures and bonding in alkali metal ureaphosphanes

Crabbe, Michelle H. and Kennedy, Alan R. and Weetman, Catherine E. and Mulvey, Robert E. (2024) Diversity of structures and bonding in alkali metal ureaphosphanes. Helvetica Chimica Acta. e202400077. ISSN 0018-019X (https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.202400077)

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Abstract

While organoelement compounds of lithium, sodium and potassium have been much studied for decades and consequently have found forests of applications, those of the heavier alkali metals, rubidium and caesium would barely manage to fill a tree. However, recently the literature has seen some little growth spurts with these metals, hinting at a possible fertile future in areas such as homogeneous catalysis provided more work is put into their fundamental development. Here we report the synthesis and crystal structures of lithium, rubidium and caesium derivatives of the ureaphosphane Ph2PCH2CH2NHC(=O)NHPh, chosen because it offers O, N, P, and π-coordination sites. Though one may expect such alkali metal compounds to be essentially similar, the caesium complex has novel features where Cs+ engages in a side-on coordination to the C=O bond and in a weak bond to the P centre, both of which are absent in the Rb structure. Less surprisingly, the lithium derivative is tetrameric in contrast to the infinite networks of the rubidium and caesium structures. All alkali metal derivatives were made by deprotonating the ureaphosphane by a suitable base, including the sodium and potassium complexes though these two complexes could not be obtained in a crystalline form.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	89382
  Dates:	Date Event 28 May 2024 Published 28 May 2024 Published Online 28 May 2024 Accepted
  Subjects:	Science > Chemistry
  Department:	Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	28 May 2024 13:33
  Last modified:	26 Jul 2024 08:36
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/89382