Uranium(III) Coordination Chemistry and Oxidation in a Flexible Small-Cavity Macrocycle
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Abstract
U(III) complexes of the conformationally flexible, small-cavity macrocycle <i>trans</i>-calix[2]benzene[2]pyrrolide (L)<sup>2</sup>, [U(L)X] (X = O-2,6-<sup>t</sup>Bu<sub>2</sub>C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>3</sub>, N(SiMe<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>), have been synthesized from [U(L)BH<sub>4</sub>] and structurally characterized. These complexes show binding of the U(III) center in the bis(arene) pocket of the macrocycle, which flexes to accommodate the increase in the steric bulk of X, resulting in long UX bonds to the ancillary ligands. Oxidation to the cationic U(IV) complex [U(L)X][B(C<sub>6</sub>F<sub>5</sub>)<sub>4</sub>] (X = BH<sub>4</sub>) results in ligand rearrangement to bind the smaller, harder cation in the bis(pyrrolide) pocket, in a conformation that has not been previously observed for (L)<sup>2</sup>, with X located between the two ligand arene rings.
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