Some copper(I)perthiocarboxylates [CuS 3CAr] 4 ( I) ( Ia, ArPh; Ib, Ar p-tolyl) were prepared in high yields from the corresponding aldehydes and ammonium polysulfide in basic medium. By reacting them with triphenylphosphine in different ratios, formation of PPh 3S occurred and the following series of products could be isolated: [(CuS 3CAr) 2(CuS 2- CAr) 2]py 2 ( II); [CuS 2CAr] 4 ( III); [(CuS 2CAr) 4- (PPh 3) 2] ( IV); [CuS 2CAr(PPh 3) 2] ( V). In the case of p-tolyl the complex [CuS 2CAr(PPh 3) 2]·PPh 3S ( VIb) was also obtained. Some significant IR and NMR ( 13C, 31P) data of the above compounds are reported. The crystal structures of compounds IIIb and VIb were established by single crystal X-ray diffraction methods. Crystals of IIIb are triclinic, space group P 1 , with a=13.879(4), b=10.324(3), c=13.479(4) Å,α=99.04(2), β=113.31(3), γ= 92.34(2)° and Z=2. Crystals of VIb are also triclinic, space group P 1 , with a=15.833(5), b= 10.999(3), c=15.690(5) Å, α=103.12(3), β= 90.88(2), γ=94.05(2)° and Z=2. The structures have been solved by direct and Fourier ( IIIb) and by Patterson and Fourier ( VIb) methods and refined by blocked full-matrix least-squares to R=0.059 for IIIb and R=0.051 for VIb. The structure of IIIb consists of discrete units of four copper atoms bound to sulfur atoms from four p-tolyldithiocarboxylate groups acting as tridentate ligands. A sulfur atom of each ligand coordinates to one only copper atom and the other bridges two adjacent metals so that each metal is pseudo-trigonally surrounded by three sulfur atoms. In the structure of VIb monomeric complexes are present in which the metal atom is pseudo-tetrahedrally coordinated by two phosphorous atoms from triphenylphosphine ligands and by two sulfur atoms from one chelating p-tolyldithiocarboxylate group. Triphenylphosphine sulfide molecules are also present in the crystals of VIb. The complex autoxidative reactions of some dithiocarboxylates in pyridine, which cause a partial transformation of the sulfur atoms in coordinated ‘SO 4’ groups, were also investigated.
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