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  • Title: Structural diversity in the coordination of amidines and guanidines to monovalent metal halides.
    Author: Oakley SH, Soria DB, Coles MP, Hitchcock PB.
    Journal: Dalton Trans; 2004 Feb 21; (4):537-46. PubMed ID: 15252515.
    Abstract:
    A series of structurally characterised, monovalent metal-halide complexes incorporating neutral amidine and guanidine ligands is reported. N,N'-diphenylbenzamidine reacted with copper(I) chloride to afford the bis-ligand complex [CuCl(PhC[NPh][NHPh])2]2 (1), that exists as a chlorine bridged dimer in the solid state, with a non-symmetrical distribution of NH...Cl interactions within the 'Cu2Cl2' metallacycle. In contrast, only one equivalent of the guanidine, Me2NC[NiPr][NHiPr] (2), is coordinated in the copper(I) iodide complex [CuI(Me2NC[NiPr][NHiPr])]2 (3), which was also isolated as the dimer with bridging halide atoms. The molecular structure of the bicyclic guanidine, 1,3,4,6,7,8-hexahydro-2H-pyrimido[1,2-alpha]pyrimidine (hppH), is reported, revealing a hydrogen bridged dimer with extensive delocalisation throughout the ligand framework. Coordination of hppH to lithium chloride afforded the dimeric bis-ligand complex [LiCl(hppH)2]2 (4) in which each hppH molecule interacts with a different chlorine atom of the central 'Li2Cl2' core of the molecule via NH...Cl hydrogen bonding. In contrast the 2:1 ligand to metal complex is formed with silver(I) chloride to afford AgCl(hppH)2 (5), a unique example of a monomeric, three-coordinate silver chloride supported by nitrogen-based ligands. The series of mixed ligand complexes [CuX(hppH)(PPh3)]n (6, X = Cl, n= 1; 7, X = Br, n= 2; 8 X = I, n= 2) have also been synthesised and structurally characterised, allowing comparisons of the relative coordinating behaviour of hppH and PPh3 as neutral donors at copper(I) centres to be made.
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