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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 51, Issue 15, Pages 8425-8432Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ic300974u
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
- UWO
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A new reversible, redox active diiminopyridine ligand (1Fc) containing pendant ferrocene functionalities was isolated and fully characterized. The reaction of 1Fc with chalcogen pseudohalides of sulfur, selenium, and tellurium yielded the respective N,N',N ''-chelated chalcogen dications. Phosphorus chemistry proceeded in a related manner but, in this case, by the direct addition of 1Fc with PI3 to yield the N,N',N ''-chelated P(I) cation. These species represent the first synthesized main group complexes involving a redox active diiminopyridine ligand containing pendant ferrocenes. Electrochemical studies of the free ligand shows a reversible two-electron process. The chelated phosphorus cation, however, displayed three events, the first being a quasi-reversible two-electron process, involving the oxidation at the P(I) center, resulting in a P(III) cation. The subsequent reversible one- and two-electron processes arise from the ligand framework and pendant ferrocenes, respectively.
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