Pairwise Assembly of Organopalladium(II) Units with Cyanurato(3鈭? and Trithiocyanurato(3鈭? Ligands: Formation of Chiral Pd12, Pd10, and Pd9 Cage-Molecules
文摘
The o-palladated, chloro-bridged dimers [Pd{2-phenylpyridine(-H)}-渭-Cl]2 and [Pd{N,N-dimethylbenzylamine(-H)}-渭-Cl]2 react with cyanuric acid in the presence of base to afford closed, chiral cage-molecules in which 12 organo-Pd(II) centers, located in pairs at the vertices of an octahedron, are linked by four tetrahedrally arranged cyanurato(3鈭? ligands. Incomplete (Pd10) cages, having structures derived from the corresponding Pd12 cages by replacing one pair of organopalladium centers with two protons, have also been isolated. Reaction of [Pd{2-phenylpyridine(-H)}-渭-Cl]2 with trithiocyanuric acid gives an entirely different and more open type of cage-complex, comprising only nine organopalladium centers and three thiocyanurato(3鈭? ligands: cage-closure in this latter system appears to be inhibited by steric crowding of the thiocarbonyl groups.