Synthesis and structures of the C5Me4SiMe3-supported polyhydride complexes over the full size range of the rare earth series.

The acid-base reaction of [Ln(CH(2)SiMe(3))(3)(thf)(2)] with Cp'H gave the corresponding half-sandwich rare earth dialkyl complexes [(Cp')Ln(CH(2)SiMe(3))(2)(thf)] (1-Ln: Ln=Sc, Y, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu; Cp'=C(5)Me(4)SiMe(3)) in 62-90% isolated yields. X-ray crystallographic studies revealed that all of these complexes adopt a similar overall structure, in spite of large difference in metal-ion size. In most cases, the hydrogenolysis of the dialkyl complexes in toluene gave the tetranuclear octahydride complexes [{(Cp')Ln(μ-H)(2)}(4)(thf)(x)] (2-Ln: Ln=Sc, x=0; Y, x=1; Er, x=1; Tm, x=1; Gd, x=1; Dy, x=1; Ho, x=1) as the only isolable product. However, in the case of Lu, a trinuclear pentahydride [(Cp')(2)Lu(3)(μ-H)(5)(μ-CH(2)SiMe(2)C(5)Me(4))(thf)(2)] (3), in which the C-H activation of a methyl group of the Me(3)Si unit on a Cp' ligand took place, was obtained as a major product (66% yield), in addition to the tetranuclear octahydride [{(Cp')Lu(μ-H)(2)}(4)(thf)] (2-Lu, 34%). The use of hexane instead of toluene as a solvent for the hydrogenolysis of 1-Lu led to formation of 2-Lu as a major product (85%), while a similar reaction in THF yielded 3 predominantly (90%). The tetranuclear octahydride complexes of early (larger) lanthanide metals [{Cp'Ln(μ-H)(2)}(4)(thf)(2)] (2, Ln=La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm) were obtained in 38-57% isolated yields by hydrogenolysis of the bis(aminobenzyl) species [Cp'Ln(CH(2)C(6)H(4)NMe(2)-o)(2)], which were generated in-situ by reaction of [Ln(CH(2)C(6)H(4)NMe(2)-o)(3)] with one equivalent of Cp'H. X-ray crystallographic studies showed that the fine structures of these hydride clusters are dependent on the size of the metal ions.

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