Pyridine and benzonitrile adducts of bis(4-nonafluorobiphenyl)zinc

Martin, Eddy, Clegg, William, Harrington, Ross W., Hughes, David, Hursthouse, Michael B., Male, Louise and Lancaster, Simon (2010) Pyridine and benzonitrile adducts of bis(4-nonafluorobiphenyl)zinc. Polyhedron, 29 (1). pp. 405-413. ISSN 1873-3719

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Abstract

Treatment of (ArF')2Zn(OEt2)2 (ArF' = 4-C6F5C6F4) with 2 equiv. of benzonitrile, 4-(phenyl)benzonitrile, 4-(pyrrolyl)benzonitrile, pyridine, 4-(phenyl)pyridine or 4-(pyrrolyl)pyridine in dichloromethane afforded the corresponding adducts (ArF')2ZnL2 in near quantitative yield. The 2,2'-bipyridine adduct was prepared similarly. Multinuclear NMR spectroscopy indicated that zinc's four-coordinate character was maintained in solution. The pyridine complex crystallized from dichloromethane with a solid-state structure free of face-to-face aryl–aryl interactions. In contrast, the 4-(pyrrolyl)pyridine adduct crystallized from both dichloromethane and 1,2-difluorobenzene, with solvent of crystallization, but otherwise essentially identical supramolecular architectures assembled through aryl–aryl synthons, including a face-to-face pentafluorophenyl–pyrrole interaction.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Synthetic Chemistry (former - to 2017)
Depositing User:	Rachel Smith
Date Deposited:	21 Mar 2011 16:18
Last Modified:	22 Dec 2022 15:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/26779
DOI:	10.1016/j.poly.2009.06.018

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