The reduction of several high oxidation state tungsten halide complexes by lithium organophosphides and primary phosphines is described. Reaction of Cp*WCl 4 (Cp* = η5-C 5Me 5) with t-Bu 2PLi (4 equiv.) results in reduction of the metal and coupling of t-Bu 2P units to form a mixture of [Cp*WCl 2] 2 and t-Bu 2PP t-Bu 2 which co-crystallize as [(Cp*WCl 2) 2·( t-Bu 2PP t-Bu 2) 2] ( 1). There are no close intermolecular contacts between the tungsten(III) chloride-bridged dimer (Cp*WCl 2) 2 and ( t-Bu 2PP t-Bu 2) in the solid state. In the crystal structure of 1 the diphosphine exists in the gauche conformation found in other structurally characterized diphosphines. The (Cp*WCl 2) 2 dimer has all four chloride ligands in bridging positions. Reaction of [Cp*WCl 4] 2 with 2 equiv. of Ph(H)PLi forms the monomeric phosphine adduct (Cp*WCl 4) (H 2PPh)] ( 2) in 50% yield. The reaction of WCl 6 wi th excess t-BuPH 2 in dichloromethane gives trans-WCl 4(H 2P t-Bu) 2 ( 3). Reaction of [(PhN)Cl 3W(PMe 3) 2] with t-Bu 2PLi (2 equiv.) under nitrogen leads to reduction and formation of the μ-N 2 bridged W(IV) dimer [{(PhN)WCl 2(PMe 3) 2} 2(μ-N 2)] ( 4) in which the WNNW core is virtually linear. Crystal data for 1: C 52H 102P 4Cl 4W 2, M = 1360.8, monoclinic, P2 1/ n (No. 14), a = 8.309(9), b = 24.50(1), c = 15.117(8) Å, β = 95.98(1)°, U = 3060.5 Å 3, Z = 2, R = 0.0385, R w = 0.0474. Crystal data for 2: C 16H 21PCl 4W, M = 569.98, monoclinic, P2 1/ c (No. 14), a = 8.776(9), b = 16.310(6), c = 16.580(1) Å, β = 101.21(6)°, U = 2327.8 Å 3, Z = 4, R = 0.046, R w = 0.069. Crystal data for 3: C 8H 20 P 2Cl 4W, M = 503.85, monoclinic, C2 (No. 5), a = 11.1 36(5), b = 8.218(7), c = 9.832(8) Å, β = 93.20(6)°, U = 898.29 Å 3, Z = 1, R = 0.0330, R w = 0.0369. Crystal data for 4: C 24H 46P 4Cl 4N 4W 2, M = 1024.07, monoclinic, P2 1/ c (No. 14), a = 15.702(2), b = 12.580(2), c = 19.416(4) Å, β = 94.41(1)°, U = 3823.9 Å 3, Z = 4, R = 0.043, R w = 0.051.
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