abstract
The one-dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid material [MoO3(bipy)] (3) (bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine) is obtained rapidly and in quantitative yield by the reaction of the complex Cis-[Mo(CO)(4)(bipy)] (1) with excess tert-buty1hydroperoxide (TBHP) in n-decane/dichloromethane at room temperature. A similar oxidative decarbonylation of the complex (cis-[MO(CO)(4)(di-t-Bu-bipy)] (2) (di-t-Bu-bipy = 4,4'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-bipyridine) leads to the isolation of the polynuclear complex [Mo8O24(di-t-Bu-bipy)(4)] (4). The structure of 4, its the CH2Cl2 solvate, was determined by X-ray crystallography. The unit cell contains two crystallographically independent octameric windmill-type complexes, formulated as [Mo8O24(di-t-Bu-bipy)(4)], both of which contain it central cubane-type Mo(mu 3-O)(4) core. Four peripheral [MoO2(di-t-Bu-bipy)](2+) units cap the long edges of the MO4 tetrahedron of the central cubane. The close packing of these complexes via weak offset pi-pi contacts involving the organic ligands leads to a structure having large channels (Occupied by solvent Molecules) running in various directions of the unit cell. Compounds 3 and 4 can be used as the basis For active catalytic systems for the liquid-phase epoxidation of cis-cyclooctene with TBHP its the oxidant, giving the corresponding epoxide as the only product. Notably higher activities, with no change in selectivity, are possible by using microwave-assisted heating instead of conventional oil bath heating and/or by increasing the reaction temperature from 55 degrees C to 75 degrees C. The excellent stability of these Mo-VI catalytic systems was confirmed by carrying out six consecutive reaction runs at 75 degrees C under microwave-assisted licating. The stable parent carbonyls (I and 2) can be used as catalyst precursors since they ARE transformed into 3 and 4 under the operating catalytic conditions.
keywords
CAMBRIDGE STRUCTURAL DATABASE; MICROWAVE-ASSISTED SYNTHESIS; BOND-VALENCE PARAMETERS; CARBONYL-COMPLEXES; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC-SUSCEPTIBILITY; ORGANIC-CHEMISTRY; TUNGSTEN(VI); DERIVATIVES
subject category
Chemistry
authors
Amarante, TR; Neves, P; Coelho, AC; Gago, S; Valente, AA; Paz, FAA; Pillinger, M; Goncalves, IS
our authors
Anabela Tavares Aguiar Valente
Principal Researcher
Filipe Alexandre Almeida Paz
Principal Researcher
Isabel Maria de Sousa Gonçalves
Associate Professor
Martyn Pillinger
Principal Researcher
Patrícia dos Santos Neves
Assistant Researcheracknowledgements
We are grateful to the Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal), POCI 2010, OE and FEDER for funding through project no. PTDC/QUI/71198/2006. T.R.A., P.N.,and S.G. thank the FCT for grants. We are also grateful to the FCT for the Financial support toward the purchase of the single-crystal diffractometer.