Synthesis of sigma-acid ligands and their interactions with late transition metals

INOR 795

Marie-Hélène Thibault, marie-helene.thibault.3@ulaval.ca and Frédéric-Georges Fontaine, frederic.fontaine@chm.ulaval.ca. Chemistry Department, Université Laval, Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, Quebec City, QC G1K 7P4, Canada
A metalloligand, which contains a Lewis acid core due to the presence of an aluminium atom, has been synthesized. The reactive aluminium center is protected by means of steric hindrance provided by phosphine substituents. The latter also act as donor groups capable of binding electron rich transition metals such as Pt and Rh. We propose to use this strong affinity to force an interaction between the transition metal and the aluminium atom in our aim of creating heterobimetallic complexes where two metallic centers interact as Lewis acid vs. Lewis base.
 

Organometallics
7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, 12 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Hall D, Poster

Division of Inorganic Chemistry

The 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006