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Published July 18, 2016 | Supplemental Material
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A Series of Diamagnetic Pyridine Monoimine Rhenium Complexes with Different Degrees of Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer: Correlating ^(13)C NMR Chemical Shifts with Bond Lengths in Redox-Active Ligands

Abstract

A set of pyridine monoimine (PMI) rhenium(I) tricarbonyl chlorido complexes with substituents of different steric and electronic properties was synthesized and fully characterized. Spectroscopic (NMR and IR) and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses of these complexes showed that the redox-active PMI ligands are neutral and that the overall electronic structure is little affected by the choices of the substituent at the ligand backbone. One- and two-electron reduction products were prepared from selected starting compounds and could also be characterized by multiple spectroscopic methods and X-ray diffraction. The final product of a one-electron reduction in THF is a diamagnetic metal–metal-bonded dimer after loss of the chlorido ligand. Bond lengths in and NMR chemical shifts of the PMI ligand backbone indicate partial electron transfer to the ligand. Two-electron reduction in THF also leads to the loss of the chlorido ligand and a pentacoordinate complex is obtained. The comparison with reported bond lengths and ^(13)C NMR chemical shifts of doubly reduced free pyridine monoaldimine ligands indicates that both redox equivalents in the doubly reduced rhenium complex investigated here are located in the PMI ligand. With diamagnetic complexes varying over three formal reduction stages at the PMI ligand we were, for the first time, able to establish correlations of the ^(13)C NMR chemical shifts with the relevant bond lengths in redox-active ligands over a full redox series.

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© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. Received: February 14, 2016. Version of Record online: 20 Jun 2016. This material is based upon work performed by the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, supported through the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Award Number DE-SC0004993. Michael Takase, Lawrence M. Henling and David G. VanderVelde are thanked for their invaluable work in the X-ray (M.T. and L.M.H.) and NMR (D.G.V.V) facilities at Caltech and a lot of helpful discussions. The authors are indebted to Natascha Junker, Bernhard E. C. Bugenhagen, and especially Prof. Peter Burger for help with the DFT calculations and generous computation time on the IAAC cluster at the University of Hamburg.

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