Photolysis of Mo(CO)
6 in
n-heptane solution createsa coordinatively unsaturated d
6 species, which interacts withthe Si-H bond of Et
2SiH
2 and leads to the formation of Mo-Hand Mo-Si bonds. The formation of a Mo-H bond wascorroborated by
1H NMR spectroscopy due to the detection ofa high-field resonance at <
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29Si satellites.The formation of Mo-Si bonds was confirmed by the detectionof two sets of
29Si satellites on the hydride signal, whichprovided
JSi-H = 57 and 33 Hz, and by the
29Si{
1H} NMRspectrum, which revealed a resonance at
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= 207.7. The lattersignal in the
29Si NMR spectrum was observed as a doublet ofquintets with
1JSi-H = 58 Hz and
2JSi-H = 41 Hz. The
95MoNMR spectrum showed at high field a resonance at
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= -3785,characteristic for seven-coordinate molybdenum compounds.The molecular structure of a novel bis{(
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-
2-hydridodiethylsilyl)tetracarbonylmolybdenum(I)} complex, [{Mo(
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-
2-H-SiEt
2)(CO)
4}
2], was established by single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. The molybdenum hydride observed in the
1H NMRspectrum was located in the structure at a chemically reasonableposition between the Mo and Si atoms of the Mo-Si bonds ofthe bridging silyl ligand with a Si-H bond length of 1.615(3)Å and that of the Mo-H bond amounting to 1.786(5) Å.