A diamino-substituted carbodiphosphorane as strong C-donor and weak N-donor: isolation of monomeric trigonal-planar L·ZnCl2

Alexander Kroll; Henning Steinert; Lennart T Scharf; Thorsten Scherpf; Bert Mallick; Viktoria H Gessner

doi:10.1039/d0cc02496a

A diamino-substituted carbodiphosphorane as strong C-donor and weak N-donor: isolation of monomeric trigonal-planar L·ZnCl₂

Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Jul 25;56(58):8051-8054. doi: 10.1039/d0cc02496a. Epub 2020 Jun 15.

Authors

Alexander Kroll¹, Henning Steinert, Lennart T Scharf, Thorsten Scherpf, Bert Mallick, Viktoria H Gessner

Affiliation

¹ Chair of Inorganic Chemistry II, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany. [email protected].

PMID: 32539059
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc02496a

Abstract

The isolation, structural characterization and coordination chemistry of a di(amino)-substituted carbodiphosphorane (CDP) are reported. Compared to the analogue, dianionic bis(iminophosphoryl)methandiides, the CDP is a stronger C-, but much weaker N-donor which led to the isolation of solely C-coordinated metal complexes amongst an unusual monomeric trigonal-planar L·ZnCl₂ complex.