Methyl, hydrochalcogenido, and phenylchalcogenolate complexes of zinc in a sulfur rich coordination environment: syntheses and structural characterization of the tris(2-mercapto-1-tert-butylimidazolyl)hydroboratozinc complexes [Tm-But]ZnMe, [Tm-But]ZnEH (E = S, Se) and [Tm-But]ZnEPh (E = O, S, Se, Te)

A series of hydrochalcogenido and phenylchalcogenolate complexes of zinc supported by tris(2-mercapto-1-tert-butylimidazolyl)hydroborato ligation, [Tm-But]ZnEH (E = S, Se) and [Tm-But]ZnEPh (E = O, S, Se, Te) have been synthesized from [Tm-But]ZnMe; structural characterization by X-ray diffraction indicates that the variation in Zn-E bonding as a function of the chalcogen is significantly different from that in other series of metal-chalcogenolate compounds.