New Bimetallics of Mo and W with Metallocene, Metal Carbonyl and Bridging PPh₂ or ‘Cp’PPh₂ Units

Abstract

Ring substituted (R=^tBu, SiMe₃) metallocene dichlorides undergo a nucleophilic substitution on one of the two rings upon the action of LiPPh₂M'(CO)_x salts with the formation of chloro-hydrido complexes [C₅H₃(R)PPh₂M'(CO)_x](C₅H₄R)M(H)Cl. Their UV irradiation leads to the chloro-bridged M(μ-Cl)M' separable diastereoisomers. Use of the ansa-metal-locene dichlorides [Me₂X(C₅H₄)₂MCl₂] (X=Si or C) allowed the access to the new bridging system [M(μ-PPh₂, μ-Cl)M′] (M=Mo, W ; M'=W).

Keywords::

• bent metallocenes
• metallophosphides
• bimetallics
• stereochemistry