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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 5, Pages 4123-4129Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6sc05583d
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- ACS Petroleum Research Fund [ACS-PRF 52704-DNI3]
- Labex ARCANE [ANR-11-LABX-0003-01]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-0821346]
- UF
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1464876] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The triiron trihydride complex Fe3H3L (1) [where L3- is a tris(beta-diketiminate)cyclophanate] reacts with CO and with BF3 center dot OEt2 to afford ((FeCO)-C-I)(2)Fe-II(mu(3)-H)L (2) and Fe3F3L (3), respectively. Variable-temperature and applied-field Mossbauer spectroscopy support the assignment of two high-spin (HS) iron(I) centers and one HS iron(II) ion in 2. Preliminary studies support a CO-induced reductive elimination of H-2 from 1, rather than CO trapping a species from an equilibrium mixture. This complex reacts with H-2 to regenerate 1 under a dihydrogen atmosphere, which represents a rare example of reversible CO/H-2 exchange and the first to occur at high-spin metal centers, as well as the first example of a reversible multielectron redox reaction at a designed high-spin metal cluster. The formation of 3 proceeds through a previously unreported net fluoride-for-hydride substitution, and 3 is surprisingly chemically inert to Si-H bonds and points to an unexpectedly large difference between the Fe-F and Fe-H bonds in this high-spin system.
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