Stabilization of molecular lanthanide polysulfides by bulky scorpionate ligands

Marcel Kühling; Robert McDonald; Phil Liebing; Liane Hilfert; Michael J Ferguson; Josef Takats; Frank T Edelmann

doi:10.1039/c6dt01439a

Stabilization of molecular lanthanide polysulfides by bulky scorpionate ligands

Dalton Trans. 2016 Jul 7;45(25):10118-21. doi: 10.1039/c6dt01439a. Epub 2016 May 6.

Authors

Marcel Kühling¹, Robert McDonald, Phil Liebing, Liane Hilfert, Michael J Ferguson, Josef Takats, Frank T Edelmann

Affiliation

¹ Chemisches Institut der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany. frank.edelmann@ovgu.de.

PMID: 27151931
DOI: 10.1039/c6dt01439a

Abstract

Well-defined lanthanide polysulfide complexes containing S4(2-) and S5(2-) ligands, the samarium(iii) pentasulfide complex Sm(Tp(iPr2))(κ(1)-3,5-(i)Pr2Hpz)(S5) and the tetrasulfide-bridged binuclear ytterbium(iii) complex (μ-S4)[Yb(Tp(iPr2))(κ(1)-3,5-(i)Pr2Hpz)(κ(2)-3,5-(i)Pr2pz)]2 (Tp(iPr2) = hydro-tris(3,5-diisopropylpyrazolyl)borate), have been synthesized and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.