Reactions of Ln(BH
4)
3(
THF)
n and [Li(Et
2O)][SPS
Me],
the li
thium salt of an anionic SPS pincer ligand composed ofa central hypervalent
4-phosphinine ring bearing two or
tho-positioned diphenylphosphine sulfide sidearms, led to
the monosubstituted compounds [Ln(BH
4)
2(SPS
Me)(THF)
2] [Ln = Ce (
1), Nd (
2)], while
the homoleptic complexes[Ln(SPS
Me)
3] [Ln = Ce (
3), Nd (
4)] were obtained by treatment of LnX
3 (X = I, BH
4) wi
th [K(Et
2O)][SPS
Me]. The[UX
2(SPS
Me)
2] complexes [X = Cl (
5), BH
4 (
6)] were isolated from reactions of UX
4 and
the li
thium or potassiumsalt of
the [SPS
Me]
- anion. The X-ray crystal structures of
1·1.5THF,
2·1.5THF,
3·2THF·2Et
2O, and
5·4py reveal
that
the flexible tridentate [SPS
Me]
- anion is bound to
the metal as a tertiary phosphine wi
th electronic delocalizationwi
thin
the unsaturated parts of
the ligand.