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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 2013, Issue 22-23, Pages 3898-3906Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201300272
Keywords
Aluminum; Nitrogen; Subvalent compounds; Metalloligands; Moessbauer spectroscopy
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- American Chemical Society [50395-DNI3]
- Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (UM)
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences [DEFG02-12ER16362]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1254621] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Anionic cobalt and iron metallalumatranes that bind dinitrogen in an end-on fashion were prepared and characterized by X-ray crystallography. Along with literature-known neutral cobalt and iron metallalumatranes, they form a quartet of low-valent coordination complexes for comparing dinitrogen activation and functionalization at cobalt versus iron centers. In the anionic metallalumatranes, the metal atoms are proposed to have subvalent oxidation states of -1. The electronic structure of the anionic iron alumatrane, which was probed by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, Mossbauer spectroscopy, and density functional theory, is most consistent with Fe(-1)Al(+3). Functionalization of dinitrogen was achieved by reaction of the ferrate alumatrane with 1,2-bis(chlorodimethylsilyl)ethane and KC8 (1 equiv.) to generate an iron(II) disilylhydrazido complex. The transformation of dinitrogen to disilylhydrazido(2-) is an overall four-electron process.
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