The reaction of the chlorodimethylsilyl-substituted cyclopentadienyl titanium compound[Ti(
5-C
5H
4SiMe
2Cl)Cl
3] (
1) with 1 equiv of NH
2(CH
2)
2NHR (R = H, CHMe
2), in the presenceof 2 equiv of NEt
3, afforded the mononuclear complexes [Ti{
5-C
5H
4SiMe
2-
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-N(CH
2)
2-
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-NHR}Cl
2] (R = H,
2; CHMe
2,
3) in high yield. While
2 is stable in solution,
3 slowly evolves intothe strain-free complex [Ti{
5-C
5H
4SiMe
2NH(CH
2)
2-
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-NCHMe
2}Cl
2] (
4).
1 reacts with 0.5equiv of ethylenediamine to yield a mixture of
2 and the dinuclear titanium complex [Ti{
5-C
5H
4SiMe
2-
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-N(CH
2)-}Cl
2]
2 (
5), which contains two tethered cyclopentadienyl-silyl-amidofragments. Compound
5 is also obtained from the reaction of
2 with
1. Treatment of
1 with0.5 equiv of propylenediamine rendered the dinuclear compound [Ti{
5-C
5H
4SiMe
2-
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-N(CH
2)
1.5-}Cl
2]
2 (
6), whereas a mixture of
6 and the mononuclear species [Ti{
5-C
5H
4SiMe
2-
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-N(CH
2)
3NH
2}Cl
2] (
7) was spectroscopically observed when
1 was reacted with 1 equiv ofNH
2(CH
2)
3NH
2 in C
6D
6. A similar reaction of
1 with
N-methylpropylenediamine regioselectively affords the unstrained mononuclear compound [Ti{
5-C
5H
4SiMe
2NH(CH
2)
3-
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-NMe}Cl
2] (
8). Dinuclear derivatives [Ti{
5-C
5H
4SiMe
2-
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-N(CH
2)
x-}Cl
2]
2 (
x = 2 (
9); 2.5 (
10)) wereprepared by reacting complex
1 with butylenediamine and pentylenediamine, respectively.These compounds were characterized by elemental analysis and NMR spectroscopy. Thecrystal structure of
3 was determined by X-ray diffraction methods.