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Formation of {Cu(μ-O)2}2+ Core Due to Dioxygen Reactivity of a Copper(I) Complex Supported by a New Hybrid Tridentate Ligand: Reaction with Exogenous Substrates

✍ Scribed by Sukanta Mandal; Anindita De; Rabindranath Mukherjee


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
375 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1612-1872

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Abstract

Reaction of a Cu^I^ complex of a hybrid tridentate ligand, encompassing [2‐(pyridin‐2‐yl)ethyl]amine and dimethyl‐substituted ethylalkylamine with dioxygen, generates in acetone at −80° putative bis(μ‐oxo)dicopper(III) intermediate. Structural characterization of a PPh~3~‐adduct of a mononuclear Cu^I^ complex of this new ligand has been achieved. This ligand coordinates in a facial mode utilizing three N‐atoms (CH~2~CH~2~Py, CH~2~CH~2~NMe~2~, and NCH~2~Ph). Reactivity of bis(μ‐oxo)dicopper(III) intermediate toward exogenous substrates (2,4‐di(tert‐butyl)phenol and 2,4,6‐tri(tert‐butyl)phenol) has also been investigated.