α-Agostic Interactions in Cp*W(NO)(CH<sub>2</sub>CMe<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub> and Related Nitrosyl Complexes
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Abstract
The solid-state molecular structure of Cp*W(NO)(CH 2 CMe 3 ) 2 ( 1 ) has been shown to contain one “strongly agostic” and one “weakly agostic” methylene hydrogen atom by a neutron diffraction analysis at 120 K and by an X-ray diffraction analysis at −100 °C. The X-ray diffraction analysis of Cp*W(NO)(CH 2 SiMe 3 ) 2 ( 2 ) at −20 °C reveals that its solid-state molecular structure possesses a crystallographically imposed mirror plane. Consequently, only the average existence of a relatively strong C−H···M interaction for each hydrocarbyl ligand in 2 in the solid state can be established. The 1 H and gated 13 C{ 1 H} NMR spectra of representative Cp‘M(NO)(R)(R‘) (M = Mo, W; R = hydrocarbyl, R‘ = hydrocarbyl, halide, amide) complexes exhibit spectral parameters for the α-H and α-C atoms (i.e., δ H, δ C, Δδ H, Δ J HC, and J HW ) that provide evidence for the presence of α-agostic interactions in the molecular structures of these complexes in solution. The picture that has emerged from these investigations is that these complexes do adopt an α-agostic structure both in solution and in the solid state when secondary interactions such as π-electron donation are weak (as in Cp*W(NO)(CH 2 CMe 3 )Cl), competitive (as in Cp*W(NO)(CH 2 CMe 3 )(CH 2 Ph)), or not possible (as in Cp*W(NO)(hydrocarbyl) 2 complexes generally). The bis(hydrocarbyl) complexes are probably stereochemically nonrigid in solution, as they appear to interconvert between the two limiting structures having one strongly agostic and one weakly agostic hydrocarbyl ligand. The neopentyl ligand forms α-agostic linkages with the metal centers in all neopentyl complexes studied, and these agostic interactions appear to be independent of the nature of the metal or the ancillary cyclopentadienyl ligand. Interestingly, the presence of these ground-state agostic interactions does not correlate with the tendency of the various compounds to undergo intramolecular α-H abstraction reactions and form reactive alkylidene complexes.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".