Di-μ-chlorido-bis({4-[bis(trimethylsilyl)amino]-6-chloro-2,2,8,8-tetramethyl-5,7-bis(trimethylsilyl)-3,5,7-triaza-4,6-diphospha-2,8-disilanon-3-en-4-ido-κ2P,P′}palladium(II)) diethyl ether disolvate

• Main Authors: Martha Höhne, Bernd H. Müller, Anke Spannenberg, Uwe Rosenthal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Union of Crystallography 2016-06-01
• Series: IUCrData
• Subjects: crystal structure; dinuclear palladium complex; chloride-bridged complex; metal catalyzed coupling; phosphorous ligand
• Online Access: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S241431461600986X
• ISSN: 2414-3146

The title compound, [Pd2(C18H54Cl2N4P2Si6)2Cl2]·2C4H10O, features a dinuclear chloride-bridged palladium complex bearing two equivalents of the novel monoanionic mixed valent (λ3-P)—N—(λ5-P) ligand. A metal catalyzed coupling of two aminoiminophosphines and a shift of one chlorine from the metal to the phosphorus results in the (λ3-P)—N—(λ5-P) ligand. The molecule contains a planar bimetallic Pd2Cl2 core with a crystallographic centre of inversion at the mid-point of the Pd...Pd line. The Pd atoms are in a distorted square-planar arrangement, where the P/Pd/P and Cl/Pd/Cl planes are twisted with respect to each other by a dihedral angle of 7.57 (4)°. The P—Pd—P bite angle is 71.380 (18)°. Intramolecular C—H...Cl interactions are observed. In the crystal, the diethyl ether solvent molecule is disordered over two sites, with an occupancy ratio of 0.788 (5):0.212 (5).