Abstract

A new family of 14-electron, four-coordinate iron(II) complexes of the general formula [Tp(tBu,Me)FeX] (Tp(tBu,Me) is the sterically hindered hydrotris(3-tert-butyl-5-methyl-pyrazolyl) borate ligand and X=Cl (1), Br, I) were synthesized by salt metathesis of FeX(2) with Tp(tBu,Me)K. The related fluoride complex was prepared by reaction of 1 with AgBF(4). Chloride 1 proved to be a good precursor for ligand substitution reactions, generating a series of four-coordinate iron(II) complexes with carbon, oxygen, and sulphur ligands. All of these complexes were fully characterized by conventional spectroscopic methods and most were characterized by single-crystal X-ray crystallographic analysis. Magnetic measurements for all complexes agreed with a high-spin (d(6), S=2) electronic configuration. The halide series enabled the estimation of the covalent radius of iron in these complexes as 1.24 Å.

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