The reduction of ReO
4- with 2-hydrazinopyridine dihydrochloride and PPh
3 gives [ReCl(PPh
3)
2(NHNC
5H
4N)(HNNC
5H
4N)]Cl
2 (
2). A similar reaction using 2-hydrazino-2-imidazoline and PPh
3 in methanol hydrochloricacid allows the preparation of [ReCl
3(PPh
3)
2(NNC
3H
4N
2)] (
3). The reaction of the Re(III) complex [ReCl
3(NNC
5H
4NH)(HNNC
5H
4N)] (
1), with 2-(Ph
2P)C
6H
4SH in methanol yields [Re{2-(Ph
2P)C
6H
4S}{2-(Ph
2PO)C
6H
4S}(NNC
5H
4N)(HNNC
5H
4N)] (
4) and [Re{2-(Ph
2P)C
6H
4S}
2(NNC
5H
4N)] (
5). The same precursor with 2-(Ph
2PO)-6-(Me
3Si)C
6H
3SH gives [ReCl{2-(Ph
2PO)-6-(Me
3Si)C
6H
3S}(NNC
5H
4N)(HNNC
5H
4N)] (
6) and with PhP(C
6H
4SH-2)
2 yields [Re{PhP(C
6H
4S-2)
2}(NNC
5H
4N)(HNNC
5H
4N)] (
7). Crystal data:
2, C
46H
39N
6P
2Cl
3Re, orthorhombic,
Pnma,
a = 19.6381(7) Å,
b = 15.1861(6) Å,
c = 15.0711(5) Å,
V = 4494.6(3) Å
3,
Z = 6, 5646 reflections,
R= 0.0655;
4, C
46H
37N
6OP
2S
2Re, triclinic,
P![](/images/entities/onemacr.gif)
,
a = 9.4233(2) Å,
b = 15.8308(3) Å,
c = 16.3530(2) Å,
![](/images/gifchars/alpha.gif)
=61.88(10)
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
,
![](/images/gifchars/beta2.gif)
= 80.9220(10)
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
,
![](/images/gifchars/gamma.gif)
= 85.1350(10)
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
,
V = 2124.40(7) Å
3,
Z = 2, 8728 reflections,
R = 0.0757;
5,monoclinic,
P2
1/
c,
a = 10.0006(2) Å,
b = 18.1857(1) Å,
c = 19.8595(2) Å,
![](/images/gifchars/beta2.gif)
= 94.09(1)
![](/images/entities/deg.gif)
,
V = 3598.08(8) Å
3,
Z = 4, 8406 reflections,
R = 0.0359.