Dihydrogen addition in a dinuclear rare-earth metal hydride complex supported by a metalated TREN ligand

Ajay Venugopal; Waldemar Fegler; Thomas P Spaniol; Laurent Maron; Jun Okuda

doi:10.1021/ja207180x

Dihydrogen addition in a dinuclear rare-earth metal hydride complex supported by a metalated TREN ligand

J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Nov 9;133(44):17574-7. doi: 10.1021/ja207180x. Epub 2011 Oct 18.

Authors

Ajay Venugopal¹, Waldemar Fegler, Thomas P Spaniol, Laurent Maron, Jun Okuda

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, 52056 Aachen, Germany.

PMID: 21985245
DOI: 10.1021/ja207180x

Abstract

The dinuclear lutetium dihydride dication supported by metalated tripodal ligands undergoes facile hydrogenolysis with H(2) to form a trihydride dication. Molecular orbital analysis shows that the LUMO is a bonding Lu···Lu orbital that is poised to activate dihydrogen.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Coordination Complexes / chemical synthesis*
Coordination Complexes / chemistry
Ethylenediamines / chemistry*
Hydrogen / chemistry*
Ligands
Metals, Rare Earth / chemistry*
Models, Molecular
Molecular Structure
Stereoisomerism

Substances

Coordination Complexes
Ethylenediamines
Ligands
Metals, Rare Earth
tris(2-aminoethyl)amine
Hydrogen