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Polychlorinated Biaryl Heterocycles as Potential Ligands. Reactions between Octachloro-1,10-phenanthroline and -2,2′-bipyridine with Copper(I) and Other Metal Ions

  • Christoph Titze and Wolfgang Kaim

Perchlorinated derivatives of the common o-diimine chelate ligands 2,2′-bipyridine and 1,10- phenanthroline were synthesized and tested for their coordination behavior towards metal ions. Octachloro-1,10-phenanthroline (ocp) was obtained via chlorination with PCl5 under pressure (300°C, 18 h). It fails to form stable complexes with e.g. Fe2+, Mn2+, Ru2+, Ni2+. Zn2+ or Cd2+, but yields complex cations [M(ocp)2]+ with M = Cu, Ag. The crystal structure analy­sis of the red tetrafluoroborate of the copper(I) complex cation reveals a distorted tetrahedral coordination at the metal with a slight tendency towards the trigonal-pyramidal arrangement; two essentially planar ligands with small bite angles intersect at almost right angle. Relative to conventional bis(1,10-phenanthroline)copper(I) complexes with similar structures. [Cu(ocp)2]+ has oxidation and reduction potentials shifted positively by about 1 V which leaves the energy of the main MLCT absorption features little changed. Attempts to synthesize RuCl2(ocp)2 in DMF produced as substituted product a symmetrical bis(dimethylamino)-hexachloro-1,10-phenanthroline which can be oxidized electrochemically in two steps. In contrast to ocp, octachloro-2,2′-bipyridine (ocb) showed no detectable complexation with Cu+ and a very neg­ative reduction potential, most probably due to its inability to exhibit a low-energy coplanar conformation.

Received: 1996-1-19
Published Online: 2014-6-2
Published in Print: 1996-7-1

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