TY - JOUR
T1 - Bonding and Reactivity of d0 Transition Metal Imido Complexes Encoded in Their 15N NMR Signatures
AU - Kakiuchi, Yuya
AU - Karmakar, Partha Sarathi
AU - Roudin, Jérémy
AU - Tonks, Ian A.
AU - Copéret, Christophe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2024/4/10
Y1 - 2024/4/10
N2 - Terminal imido complexes containing metal-nitrogen multiple bonds have been widely used in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis. The role of terminal imido ligands spans from reactive sites to spectator motifs, largely depending on the nature of the metal center and its specific coordination sphere. Aiming at identifying reactivity descriptors for M-N multiple bonds, we herein explore solid-state 15N NMR spectroscopy (ssNMR) on early transition metal terminal imido complexes augmented by computational studies and show that the asymmetry parameter, κ (skew, 1 ≥ κ ≥ −1), readily available from experiments or calculations, is diagnostic for the reactivity of M-N multiple bonds in imido complexes. While inert imido ligands exhibit skew values (κ) close to 1, highly reactive imido moieties display significantly lower skew values (κ ≪ 1) as found in metallocene or bis-imido complexes. Natural chemical shielding analysis shows that skew values away from 1 are associated with an asymmetric development of π-orbitals around the M-N multiple bond of the imido moiety, with a larger double-bond character for reactive imido. Notably, this descriptor does not directly relate to the M-N-C bond angle, illustrating the shortcoming of evaluating bonding and hybridization from geometrical parameters alone. Overall, this descriptor enables to obtain direct experimental evidence for the π-loading effect seen in bis(imido) and related complexes, thus explaining their bonding/reactivity.
AB - Terminal imido complexes containing metal-nitrogen multiple bonds have been widely used in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis. The role of terminal imido ligands spans from reactive sites to spectator motifs, largely depending on the nature of the metal center and its specific coordination sphere. Aiming at identifying reactivity descriptors for M-N multiple bonds, we herein explore solid-state 15N NMR spectroscopy (ssNMR) on early transition metal terminal imido complexes augmented by computational studies and show that the asymmetry parameter, κ (skew, 1 ≥ κ ≥ −1), readily available from experiments or calculations, is diagnostic for the reactivity of M-N multiple bonds in imido complexes. While inert imido ligands exhibit skew values (κ) close to 1, highly reactive imido moieties display significantly lower skew values (κ ≪ 1) as found in metallocene or bis-imido complexes. Natural chemical shielding analysis shows that skew values away from 1 are associated with an asymmetric development of π-orbitals around the M-N multiple bond of the imido moiety, with a larger double-bond character for reactive imido. Notably, this descriptor does not directly relate to the M-N-C bond angle, illustrating the shortcoming of evaluating bonding and hybridization from geometrical parameters alone. Overall, this descriptor enables to obtain direct experimental evidence for the π-loading effect seen in bis(imido) and related complexes, thus explaining their bonding/reactivity.
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U2 - 10.1021/jacs.3c14723
DO - 10.1021/jacs.3c14723
M3 - Article
C2 - 38534051
AN - SCOPUS:85189018892
SN - 0002-7863
VL - 146
SP - 9860
EP - 9870
JO - Journal of the American Chemical Society
JF - Journal of the American Chemical Society
IS - 14
ER -