Routes to new tungsten alkylidene complexes that contain t-butylimido or adamantylimido ligands have been devised that begin with a reaction between WCl6 and four equivalents of HNR(TMS) to give [W(NR)2Cl(-Cl)(RNH2)]2 (R = t-Bu or 1-adamantyl). Alkylation leads to W(NR)2(CH2R')2 (R' = t-Bu or CMe2Ph) which upon treatment with pyridinium chloride yields W(NR)(CHR')Cl2py2 complexes, from which W(NR)(CHR')(Pyrrolide)2 and two W(NR)(CHR')(Pyrrolide)(OAr) complexes (OAr = hexamethyl-or hexaisopropylterphenoxide) have been prepared. Science Foundation (CHE-1111133 to R.R.S.) for financial support. The X-ray diffractometer was purchased with the help of funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Number CHE-0946721. We thank Professor Kit Cummins for the suggestion that hydrogen bonding is present in 1a.Supporting Information Available. Experimental details for the synthesis of all compounds and details of the X-ray structural studies. Supporting Information is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.
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Experimental SectionGeneral. All air and moisture sensitive materials were manipulated under a nitrogen atmosphere in a Vacuum Atmospheres glovebox or on a dual-manifold Schlenk line. All glassware, including NMR tubes, was oven-dried prior to use. Diethyl ether, pentane, toluene, dichloromethane, 1,2-dimethoxyethane, and benzene were degassed and passed through activated alumina columns and stored over 4 Å Linde-type molecular sieves prior to use. Deuterated solvents were dried over 4 Å Linde-type molecular sieves prior to use. 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra were acquired at room temperature using Varian 300MHz or 500MHz spectrometers. Chemical shifts for 1 H and 13 C spectra are reported as parts per million relative to tetramethylsilane and referenced to the residual 1 H/ 13 C resonances of the deuterated solvent ( 1 H () : benzene 7.16, chloroform 7.26, methylene chloride 5.32; 13 C () : benzene 128.06, chloroform 77.16, methylene chloride 53.84). N-t-butyltrimethylsilylamine was either prepared from TMSCl and t-BuNHLi in ether or purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. The synthesis of N-trimethylsilyl(1-adamantyl)amine has been reported previously; i our preparation employed the n-butyllithium and chlorotrimethylsilane. Pyridinium chloride was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich or Alfa Aesar and sublimed before use. Ethereal solutions of HCl were prepared by bubbling HCl gas into diethyl ether; these solutions were titrated before use. Neopentyl Grignard ii , HMTOH iii , HIPTOH iv , and ZnCl 2 (dioxane) v were prepared according to literature procedures. All other reagents were used as received.[W(N-t-Bu) 2 Cl(μ-Cl)(t-BuNH 2 )] 2 (1a).The following procedure was adapted from a recent publication. vi A solution of N-t-butyltrimethylsilylamine (25 g, 172 mmol) in 30 mL toluene was added slowly over a period of 50 min to WCl 6 (15.2 g, 38.33 mmol) in 150 mL of toluene. The reaction mixture was stirred for 24 h at room temperature. The dark green mixture was filtered through a pad of Celite, a...