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Divalent lanthanide complexes free of coordinating anions: Facile synthesis of fully solvated dicationic [LnLx]2+ compounds
Evans, William J.,Johnston, Matthew A.,Greci, Michael A.,Gummersheimer, Tammy S.,Ziller, Joseph W.
, p. 119 - 126 (2003)
Fully-solvated, divalent lanthanide dication complexes free of coordinating anions, [LnLx]2+, in which L = MeCN, THF, have been synthesized by protonation of amide, indenyl, and pentamethylcyclopentadienyl precursors. The Sm(II) dication [Sm(THF)7]2+ was initially isolated as [Sm(THF)7][BPh4]2, (1), by protonolysis of the indenyl complex (C9H7)2Sm(THF)3 with [Et3NH][BPh4]. Compound 1 can also be obtained from (C5Me5)Sm[N(SiMe3)2] (THF)2 and [Et3NH][BPh4]. The Yb analog, [Yb(THF)6][BPh4]2, (2), was obtained from the reaction of the bimetallic [(C5Me5)Yb(THF)]2(C8 H8) with AgBPh4 and the reaction of (C5Me5)Yb[N(SiMe3)2] (THF)2 with [Et3NH][BPh4], but [YbLx]2+ is best obtained from the reaction of Yb[N(SiMe3)2]2(THF)2 with [Et3NH][BPh4]. Reaction of Yb[N(SiMe3)2]2(THF)2 with [Et3NH][BPh4] in THF followed by recrystallization from acetonitrile affords [Yb(MeCN)8][BPh4]2, (3). The seven THF molecules in 1 form a pentagonal bipyramidal ligand environment around Sm2+. Complex 2 has an octahedral Yb2+ coordination environment and 3 has a distorted square antiprismatic arrangement of MeCN ligands around Yb2+.