Ruthenium‐assisted tellurium abstraction in bis(thiophen‐2‐yl) ditelluride
Abstract
The reaction of [RuCl2(CO)3]2 and Te2Tpn2 (Tpn = thiophen-2-yl, C4H3S) in the absence of light resulted in the formation of cct-[RuCl2(CO)2(TeTpn2)2] (1) [cis(Cl)-cis(CO)-trans(TeTpn2)] and TeTpn2 (2) together with the precipitation of tellurium. The complex 1 and the monotelluride 2 were characterized by NMR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The decomposition of Te2Tpn2 to TeTpn2 has been monitored by 125Te NMR spectroscopy and seemed to be faster than the ligand substitution in [RuCl2(CO)3]2 by TeTpn2. A catalytic cycle is proposed for the decomposition of Te2Tpn2 to TeTpn2 based on the PBE0-D3/def2-TZVP calculations.
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2023
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
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1434-1948
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https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202200772
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English
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European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
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- Taimisto, M., Poropudas, M. J., Rautiainen, J. M., Oilunkaniemi, R., & Laitinen, R. S. (2023). Ruthenium‐assisted tellurium abstraction in bis(thiophen‐2‐yl) ditelluride. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 26(14), Article e202200772. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202200772
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The Alfred Kordelin Foundation (Grantno. 210317) and Tauno Tönning Research Foundation (M. T.), and provision of computational resources by Prof. Heikki Tuononen (University of Jyväskylä) (J. M. R.) are gratefully acknowledged.
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