Bimetallic Ru-Pd and Trimetallic Ru-Pd-Cu Assemblies on the Carborane Cluster Surface

Bennett J Eleazer; H D A Chathumal Jayaweera; Gayathri B Gange; Mark D Smith; Corey R Martin; Kyoung Chul Park; Alexey A Popov; Dmitry V Peryshkov

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02799

Bimetallic Ru-Pd and Trimetallic Ru-Pd-Cu Assemblies on the Carborane Cluster Surface

Inorg Chem. 2021 Nov 15;60(22):16911-16916. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02799. Epub 2021 Oct 28.

Authors

Bennett J Eleazer¹, H D A Chathumal Jayaweera¹, Gayathri B Gange¹, Mark D Smith¹, Corey R Martin¹, Kyoung Chul Park¹, Alexey A Popov², Dmitry V Peryshkov¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, 631 Sumter Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, United States.
² Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Helmholtzstrasse 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany.

PMID: 34710327
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02799

Abstract

The synthesis of well-defined heterometallic complexes remains a frontier challenge in inorganic chemistry. We report an approach that relies on the sequential insertion of electrophilic metal fragments into electron-rich Ru-B bonds of the η²-BB-carboryne complex (POBBOP)Ru(CO)₂ [POBBOP = 1,7-OP(ⁱPr)₂-m-2,6-dehydrocarborane]. Utilizing this synthetic strategy, bimetallic (POBBOP)(Ru)(CO)₂[Pd(P^tBu₃)] and trimetallic (POBBOP)(Ru)(CO)₂[Pd(P^tBu₃)](CuBr) complexes were selectively prepared. Structural and theoretical analysis of the features of chemical bonding within Ru-B-B-Cu and Ru-B-B-Pd fragments is presented.