Abstract
Monomeric ferrocene bis-imidazoline bis-palladacycles (FBIP) have recently been reported to be efficient bimetallic catalysts in different sorts of asymmetric reactions by the cooperation of two Pd(II) centers. A crucial parameter regarding the efficiency of reactions catalyzed in a bimetallic mode is—in general—the intermetallic distance of both catalytically relevant metal centers. In this article we describe the structural elucidation of the monomeric FBIP catalyst type (usually generated in situ from a catalytically inactive dimeric chloride bridged precatalyst) by X-ray crystal structure analysis. Two dicationic monomeric complexes are compared to a neutral complex. The solid-state structures reveal varying Pd–Pd distances ranging from 3.15 to 5.27 A for the doubly charged complexes, whereas for the neutral complex a distance of 3.28 A has been found. This variability is supposed to be one of the key advantages of a ferrocene backbone in a bimetallic catalyst system, since the Fe–Cp bonds allow the b...
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