Silver(I) Complexes of the Weakly Coordinating Solvents SO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>2</sub>: Crystal Structures, Bonding, and Energetics of [Ag(OSO)][Al{OC(CF<sub>3</sub>)<sub>3</sub>}<sub>4</sub>], [Ag(OSO)<sub>2/2</sub>][SbF<sub>6</sub>], and [Ag(CH<sub>2</sub>Cl<sub>2</sub>)<sub>2</sub>][SbF<sub>6</sub>]
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Abstract
Pushing the limits of coordination chemistry: The most weakly coordinated silver complexes of the very weakly coordinating solvents dichloromethane and liquid sulfur dioxide were prepared. Special techniques at low temperatures and the use of weakly coordinating anions allowed structural characterization of [Ag(OSO)][Al{OC(CF(3))(3)}(4)], [Ag(OSO)(2/2)][SbF(6)], and [Ag(Cl(2)CH(2))(2)][SbF(6)] (see figure). An investigation of the bonding shows that these complexes are mainly stabilized by electrostatic monopole-dipole interactions.The synthetically useful solvent-free silver(I) salt Ag[Al(pftb)(4)] (pftb=--OC(CF(3))(3)) was prepared by metathesis reaction of Li[Al(pftb)(4)] with Ag[SbF(6)] in liquid SO(2). The solvated complexes [Ag(OSO)][Al(pftb)(4)], [Ag(OSO)(2/2)][SbF(6)], and [Ag(CH(2)Cl(2))(2)][SbF(6)] were prepared and isolated by special techniques at low temperatures and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The SO(2) complexes provide the first examples of coordination of the very weak Lewis base SO(2) to silver(I). The SO(2) molecule in [Ag(OSO)][Al(pftb)(4)] is eta(1)-O coordinated to Ag(+), while the SO(2) ligands in [Ag(OSO)(2/2)][SbF(6)] bridge two Ag(+) ions in an eta(2)-O,O' (trans,trans) manner. [Ag(CH(2)Cl(2))(2)][SbF(6)] contains [Ag(CH(2)Cl(2))(2)](+) ions linked through [SbF(6)](-) ions to give a polymeric structure. The solid-state silver(I) ion affinities (SIA) of SO(2) and CH(2)Cl(2), based on bond lengths and corresponding valence units in the corresponding complexes and tensimetric titrations of Ag[Al(pftb)(4)] and Ag[SbF(6)] with SO(2) vapor, show that SO(2) is a weaker ligand to Ag(+) than the commonly used weakly coordinating solvent CH(2)Cl(2) and indicated that binding strength of SO(2) to silver(I) in the silver(I) salts increases with increasing size of the corresponding counteranion ([Al(pftb)(4)](-)>[SbF(6)](-)). The experimental findings are in good agreement with theoretical gas-phase ligand-binding energies of [Ag(L)(n)](+) (L=SO(2), CH(2)Cl(2); n=1, 2) and solid-state enthalpies obtained from Born-Fajans-Haber cycles by using the volume-based thermodynamics (VBT) approach. Bonding analysis (VB, NBO, MO) of [Ag(L)(n)](+) suggests that these complexes are almost completely stabilized by electrostatic interaction, that is, monopole-dipole interaction, with almost no covalent contribution by electron donation from the ligand orbitals into the vacant 5s orbital of Ag(+). All experimental findings and theoretical considerations demonstrate that SO(2) is less covalently bound to Ag(+) than CH(2)Cl(2) and support the thesis that SO(2) is a polar but non-coordinating solvent towards Ag(+).
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| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.013 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.009 | 0.024 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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