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The crystal structure of Hexakis(diethylamido)dimolybdenum, Mo2(NEt2)6

  • Tobias Brauner , Christoph Wagner ORCID logo and Kurt Merzweiler ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: May 18, 2021

Abstract

C24H60Mo2N6, trigonal, R3 (no. 148), a = 16.7680(8) Å, c = 9.7523(4) Å, V = 2374.7(2) Å3, Z = 3, Rgt(F) = 0.0205, wRref(F2) = 0.0517, T = 213 K.

CCDC no.: 2080037

The molecular structure is shown in the figure (Hydrogen atoms were omitted for clarity).

Table 1:

Data collection and handling.

Crystal:Yellow needle
Size:0.56 × 0.07 × 0.07 mm
Wavelength:Mo Kα radiation (0.71073 Å)
μ:0.81 mm−1
Diffractometer, scan mode:STOE IPDS 2, ω-scan
θmax, completeness:26.0°, >99%
N(hkl)measured, N(hkl)unique, Rint:7139, 1039, 0.062
Criterion for Iobs, N(hkl)gt:Iobs > 2 σ(Iobs), 1007
N(param)refined:49
Programs:SHELX [11], [12], Olex2 [13], Diamond [14], X-Area [15]
Table 2:

Fractional atomic coordinates and isotropic or equivalent isotropic displacement parameters (Å2).

AtomxyzUiso*/Ueq
Mo0.66670.33330.44755 (2)0.02368 (11)
N0.73519 (10)0.46460 (10)0.49924 (15)0.0315 (3)
C10.76858 (15)0.48126 (14)0.6415 (2)0.0414 (4)
H10.72920.42630.69610.050*
H20.76240.53220.67890.050*
C20.86725 (17)0.50409 (19)0.6573 (3)0.0597 (6)
H30.88430.51410.75340.072*
H40.87380.45340.62290.072*
H50.90710.55940.60560.072*
C30.76863 (14)0.54991 (13)0.4211 (2)0.0401 (4)
H60.75270.53440.32440.048*
H70.83590.58540.42770.048*
C40.72989 (19)0.61003 (16)0.4690 (3)0.0585 (6)
H80.75490.66510.41280.070*
H90.66330.57610.46050.070*
H100.74670.62720.56400.070*

Source of material

Mo2(NEt2)6 was synthesized from LiNEt2 and MoCl3(THF)3 [1] by a slightly modified method according to Chisholm et al. [2]. Yellow single crystals of Mo2(NEt2)6 were obtained by sublimation at 150 °C and 10-5 mbar.

1H-NMR (400 MHz, C6D6): δ [ppm] = 1.11 (t, 36H, CH33J(HH) = 7.0 Hz); 3.50 (q, 24H, CH23J(HH) = 7.0 Hz), 13C-NMR (100 MHz, C6D6): δ [ppm] = 15.5 (s, 12 C, CH3); 51.9 (s; 12 C; CH2).

Experimental details

Details of the crystal structure determination are collected in Table 1 and the results of structure calculation are listed in Table 2 with atomic coordinates.

The hydrogen atoms were placed on calculated positions and refined with a riding model. Their Uiso values were set to 1.2 Ueq for CH2 groups and 1.5 for CH3 groups of the parent carbon atoms.

Comment

Since the first synthesis of Mo2(CH2SiMe3)6 around five decades ago [3], a large number of Mo2R6 compounds comprising Mo–Mo triple bonds were synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffraction methods [4]. However, in the case of dialkylamide derivatives Mo2(NR2)6 X-ray structure determinations apart from that of the parent compound Mo2(NMe2)6 [5] are still rare. Some more structural data are available from complexes with μ2-bridging bis-amido ligands like Mo2(R′NCH2CH2NR′)3 (R′ = Me [6], R′ = i–Pr [7]), and mixed organyl/dialkylamide ligands, e.g. Mo2R′2(NMe2)4 (R′ = benzyl, o-tolyl, p-tolyl [8], ethyl [9]).

The preparation of the title compound Mo2(NEt2)6 was reported in 1976 [2]. Pale yellow single crystals suitable for X-ray diffraction were grown by sublimation in high vacuum.

Mo2(NEt2)6 crystallizes in the trigonal system, space group R3 with three formula units per unit cell. The crystal structure consists of discrete molecules Mo2(NEt2)6 without any unusual short intermolecular contacts. The Mo2(NEt2)6 units are situated around a crystallographic center of inversion (Wyckoff site 3a). The asymmetric unit comprises one third of the molecule with the Mo atom situated on the 3 axis and the remaining atoms at general positions. Thus, the Mo2(NEt2)6 unit exhibits crystallographically imposed S6 point symmetry, which implies a staggered conformation of the Mo(NEt2)3 fragments. Generally, the staggered conformation is preferred for Mo2R6 compounds with terminally binding ligands R [4]. In the case of μ2-bridging ligands steric strain usually forces eclipsed arrangements, i.e. Mo2(RNCH2CH2NR)3 [10] (R = Me [5], i–Pr [6]).

Mo2(NEt2)6 exhibits a Mo–Mo distance of 2.2277(4) Å which is close to that in Mo2(NMe2)6 (2.21(2) Å) [1]. Comparable distances are found in the dimolybdenum hexaalkoxides Mo2(OR)6 R = CH2tBu [9] with 2.222(2) Å and R = C(CF3)2CH3 [10] with 2.2263(4) Å. Furthermore, the Mo–N distances (1.9723(1) Å) and the N–Mo–N angles (113.70(4)°) are in accordance with the observations in Mo2(NMe2)6 (1.97(2)–2.00(1) Å and (113.5(2)–115.2(2)°). Like in the case of the NMe2 derivative, the nitrogen atoms adopt a nearly planar coordination (sum of the angles around N: 359.6°). The dihedral angle between the Mo2N plane and NC2 plane is 16° and thus markedly larger than in case of Mo2(NMe2)6 (0.3–3.6°). Obviously, this is a result of increased steric crowding in the NEt2 derivative. The orientation of the ethyl groups with respect to the Mo–Mo triple bonds allows for a differentiation into proximal and distal groups. In the case of the proximal ethyl groups the Mo–N–C angles (133.1(1)°) are significantly larger than in the distal case (114.0(1)°). Similar disparities were observed for Mo2(NMe2)6 (132° and 116°, resp.) [2].


Corresponding author: Kurt Merzweiler, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, Institut für Chemie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 2, 06120Halle (Saale),Germany, E-mail:

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: We acknowledge the financial support within the funding programme Open Access Publishing by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2021-04-12
Accepted: 2021-04-26
Published Online: 2021-05-18
Published in Print: 2021-07-27

© 2021 Tobias Brauner et al., published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

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