Abstract
In the coordination chemistry of palladium, dimers bridged via halides are a common motif. Higher oligomers, however, are still rare. We report the structure of an alternating eight-membered [Pd4Br4](4-) ring framed by cycloheptatrienide ligands, which was obtained by cocrystallization of dimers and tetramers of the complex salt bromido{η(3)-[3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolium-1-yl]cycloheptatrienido}palladium(II) tetrafluoroborate, namely bis[di-μ-bromido-bis({η(3)-[3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolium-1-yl]cycloheptatrienido}palladium(II))] cyclo-tetra-μ-bromido-tetrakis({η(3)-[3-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolium-1-yl]cycloheptatrienido}palladium(II)) octakis(tetrafluoroborate) dichloromethane octasolvate, [Pd4Br4(C22H26N2)4][Pd2Br2(C22H26N2)2]2(BF4)8·8CH2Cl2. These dimers and tetramers form a highly dynamic equilibrium in solution which was studied by low-temperature NMR spectroscopy. In the light of the presented results, tetrameric Pd(II) species can be assumed to co-exist as a second species in many cases where by current knowledge only a dimeric compound would be expected.
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