Nickel and Platinum PCP Pincer Complexes Incorporating an Acyclic Diaminoalkyl Central Moiety Connecting Imidazole or Pyrazole Rings
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This work explores avenues toward PCP pincer complexes with acyclic diaminocarbene central moieties that are suitable for ligand-assisted reactivity involving the carbene carbon. For this purpose, diphosphine chelating ligands 1 and 2, with bis(imidazolyl)methyl and bis(pyrazolyl)methyl backbones, respectively, were prepared in two high-yield synthetic steps. Nickel(II) and platinum(II) dihalide complexes 3 and 6, incorporating 1, were prepared and converted into PCP pincer ligands 5 and 7 upon deprotonation with KHMDS. Chelated nickel(I) complex 4 was obtained as a byproduct to 3 . Although the solid-state structures of 5 and 7 presented geometric strain at the diaminomethyl carbon, this moiety could not be converted into a diaminocarbene by proton or hydride abstraction. 7 could be converted into platinum(IV) analog 8 by oxidation with PhICl 2 . Ligand 2 proved more versatile than 1, or less dependable in its behavior, generating P,N-chelating cobalt(II) dibromide complex 9 . Easily accessible ligands 1 and 2 provide a new and versatile PCP pincer platform.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".