Interplay of Weak Interactions: An Iridium(III) System with an Agostic tert-Butyl but a Nonagostic Isopropyl Group
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Abstract
The solid state structure and NMR data of 2-substituted benzoquinoline Ir(III) complexes show that the pendant group G does not necessarily become agostic despite the presence of an available nearby coordination site at the Ir center. Thus for G = t-Bu the agostic structure is observed, but for G = i-Pr, the potentially agostic i-Pr methyl groups point away from the metal. ONIOM(B3PW91/UFF) calculations reproduce the experimental observations and suggest that several ligand−ligand interactions (parallel aromatic stacking and C−H···H−Ir interactions) successfully compete in energy with the agostic interaction. Fluorobenzene (PhF) was found to be a much better noncoordinating polar solvent for synthesis of the t-Bu complex than dichloromethane.
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