Rhenium carbonyl compounds with polypyridyl ligands

CHED 1240

Christopher Aquina, ctaqui07@holycross.edu1, Christopher J. Ziegler, ziegler@uakron.edu2, Richard S. Herrick, rherrick@holycross.edu1, Anil Cetin, ac30@uakron.edu2, and Donald L. Jameson, djameson@gettysburg.edu3. (1) Department of Chemistry, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College St., Worcester, MA 01610-2395, (2) Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, KNCL 404, Akron, OH 44325, (3) Department of Chemistry, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325
The reactions of tripod ligands, tris(2-pyridyl)carbinol and tris(2-pyridyl)methyoxymethane with Re(I) carbonyl compounds have been examined to test the feasibilty of this tripod system as a bifunctional chelating agent. Reactions of the alcohol produce an expected series of products as the pyridines and the alcohol group can each serve as a donor group. Three different compounds have been isolated and characterized. Using the corresponding ether provides only the single expected κ3- product, [Re(CO)3L]Br in good yield. In addition to the synthetic, spectroscopic and crystallographic aspects of this project, the results of testing the tripod complex by incubating under physiological conditions will be reported.
 

Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Inorganic Chemistry
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The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007