A highly constrained cis-dihydride platinum complex trapped by cooperative gold/platinum dihydrogen activation
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This work was supported by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant, CoopCat, Project 756575) and Grants PID2019-110856GA-I00 and PID2020-113797R funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. We also thank US/JUNTA/FEDER, UE (Grants US-1380849 and US-1262266). F. C. M. acknowledges the Spanish Ministry of Universities for a Margarita Salas fellowship.
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9144 | Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 9144–9147 This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022 Cite this: Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 9144 A highly constrained cis-dihydride platinum complex trapped by cooperative gold/platinum dihydrogen activation† Nereida Hidalgo, ‡ a Felipe de la Cruz-Martı ´nez, ‡ a M. Trinidad Martı ´n, b M. Carmen Nicasio * b and Jesu ´s Campos * a A series of Au(I)/Pt(0) combinations that behave as bimetallic frustrated Lewis pairs activates dihydrogen in a cooperative manner. The steric bulk of the terphenyl phosphines that stabilize both fragments allows for the isolation of a rather unique and highly distorted cis-type dihydride platinum(II) structure. In the last fifteen years, frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) systems have become a major research topic in main group chemistry and catalysis, mainly due to their ability to activate small molecules and perform a broad range of catalytic transformations. 1 Although first developed by combining main group Lewis acids and Lewis bases with high steric profiles to prevent quenching by donor–acceptor interactions, the FLP concept has been progressively extended to transition metals due to the enormous structural and electronic diversity of their complexes. Inspired by pioneering work of Wass 2 and Erker 3 on zirconium/phosphine FLPs, we have pursued the design of frustrated systems in which the two components are based on transition metals. 4 Among these studies, we have investigated in detail Au(I)/ Pt(0) pairs 5 comprised of [(PR 2 Ar0)Au(NTf 2 )] and Pt(P t Bu 3 ) 2 fragments, where Ar0stands for bulky terphenyl groups (C 2 H 3 -2,6-Ar 2 ) and NTf 2 for the weakly coordinating triflimide anion (see Fig. 1a). Since the activation of dihydrogen has become a benchmark reaction to gauge FLP reactivity, 6 we exposed the aforesaid Au(I)/Pt(0) pairs to H 2 gas, which led us to postulate the first genuine bimetallic FLP mechanism for dihydrogen cleavage. 5c Besides, our studies indicated a strong influence of the gold fragment steric properties on the rate of bond activation and also on the resulting product distribution. Encouraged by our recent access to the highly congested Pt(0) compound Pt(PMe 2 Ar Dtpb2 ) 2 (Dtbp = 3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl) (Fig. 1a), 7 and by the still lively debate on the precise mechanism of dihydrogen activation by FLPs, 8 we report herein our studies on the contrasting reactivity offered by three Au(I)/Pt(PMe 2 Ar Dtpb2 ) 2 pairs towards H 2 (Fig. 1b). The combination of two metallic fragments stabilized by terphenyl phosphine ligands have allowed us to isolate unique models of cis–trans-isomerization in platinum(II) dihydrides, mostly associated to unhindered and highly reactive complexes. 9 Before investigating the reactivity of the 1:2pairs with dihydrogen, we first examined the potential formation of bimetallic adducts 3characterized by a dative Pt -Au bond (Scheme 1). The existence of acid-base interactions in FLP Fig. 1 (a) Terphenyl phosphine ligands used in this work to stabilize Au(I) and Pt(0) compounds (NTf 2 (triflimide) = [N(SO 2 CF 3 ) 2 ] ); (b) key bimetallic Au(I)/Pt(II) dihydride isomeric structures isolated and characterized herein. a Instituto de Investigaciones Quı ´micas (IIQ), Departamento de Quı ´mica Inorga ´nica and Centro de Innovacio ´n en Quı ´mica Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientı ´ficas (CSIC) and Universidad de Sevilla, Avenida Ame ´rico Vespucio 49, Sevilla 41092, Spain. E-mail: Spainjesus.cam[email protected] b Departamento de Quı ´mica Inorga ´nica, Universidad de Sevilla, Aptdo 1203, Sevilla 41071, Spain. E-mail: [email protected] †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Synthesis and characterization data of new compounds, NMR spectra, variable temperature and kinetic experiments and crystal data. CCDC 2175895 and 2175896. For ESI and crystallographic data in CIF or other electronic format see DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/ d2cc03089f ‡These authors contributed equally to this work. Received 31st May 2022, Accepted 19th July 2022 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc03089f rsc.li/chemcomm ChemComm COMMUNICATION Open Access Article. Published on 19 July 2022. Downloaded on 11/3/2022 3:25:09 PM. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. View Article Online View Journal | View Issue
This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022 Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 9144–9147 | 9145 systems has a profound impact on their cooperative reactivity. As such, the presence of Pt -Au bonds greatly diminishes the reactivity of Au(I)/Pt(0) pairs, though it does not quench their frustrated reactivity as they may behave as thermally induced FLPs. 5c Thus, we examined the combination of Pt(0) compound 2and Au(I) triflimide complexes 1a–c (Scheme 1) bearing phosphines PMe 2 Ar Xyl2 (1a), PMe 2 Ar Dipp2 (1b) and PCyp 2 Ar Xyl2 (1c) (Cyp = cyclopentyl) and using solvents of different polarity. As anticipated, the steric hindrance of the phosphines coordinated to gold (PCyp 2 Ar Xyl2 4PMe 2 Ar Dipp2 4PMe 2 Ar Xyl2 ) 10 is crucial to modulate the equilibrium between Lewis adduct formation and complete bimetallic frustration. The more congested 1c is unable to coordinate to compound 2, contrasting with related examples based on [Pt(0)(PR 3 )] 2 species that recurrently led to the formation of metal-only Lewis pairs. 11 Conversely, when compound 2is combined with one equivalent of 1a, the corresponding bimetallic Lewis adduct 3a is formed. It exhibits 31 P{ 1 H} NMR signals at 23.2 and 13.5 ppm due to PMe 2 Ar Xyl2 and PMe 2 Ar Dtbp2 , respectively. The former reveals a pronounced decreased of the 1 J PPt coupling constant to 3077 Hz (cf. 3794 Hz in 2), while the latter signal is flanked by 195 Pt satellites ( 2 J PPt =2060Hz),bothfeatures indicative of formation of adduct 3a. An interesting situation is found in the case of compound 1b bearing the intermediate size phosphine PMe 2 Ar Dipp2 , which upon equimolar combination with 2in C 6 D 6 seems to be in equilibrium between adduct formation and monometallic fragments. We infer this from the corresponding 31 P{ 1 H} NMR spectrum, which shows broadened signals for the two monometallic species which sharpen upon cooling the NMR probe, a behaviour comparable to our prior studies with Au(I)/Pt(0). 5c Solvent effects have an important influence in traditional FLP systems, 12 and the same applies herein. Thus, in more polar solvents as CD 2 Cl 2 or THF compound 3b cleanly forms ( 31 P{ 1 H} NMR, d11.5 ( 1 J PPt = 3054 Hz), 25.4). It is likely that the higher propensity to solvate the departing triflimide anion upon adduct formation favours the formation of the latter. Next, we investigated the cooperative reactivity of these Au(I)/ Pt(0) pairs towards hydrogen. It is important to note that neither gold precursor 1nor complex 2could react with dihydrogen (1 bar) even under harsher reaction conditions (80 1C, up to 1 week) to those attempted with the bimetallic pairs. In contrast, pairs 1:2rapidly reacted with dihydrogen, though the selectivity of the transformation was highly dependent on the terphenyl phosphine anchored to gold. First, addition of H 2 under mild conditions (1 bar, 25 1C) to an equimolar mixture of 1a:2in C 6 D 6 produced the new heterobimetallic Au–Pt complex 4a (Scheme 2). The formulation of 4a was rapidly inferred from two distinctive low-frequency signals in its 1 H NMR spectrum at 1.15 ( 2 J HP = 100, 1 J HPt = 585 Hz) and 6.93 ( 1 J HPt = 1223 Hz) ppm, corresponding to a bridging and a terminal hydride, in analogy to the previously reported compound [(PMe 2 Ar Dipp2 )Au(m-H)Pt(P t Bu 3 ) 2 (H)]. 5a In contrast, the bulkier Au(I) precursors 1b and 1c led to a different spectroscopic pattern upon combination with 2and exposure to dihydrogen (1 bar, 25 1C). In those cases, a single hydridic signal for two protons was recorded at 4.03 ( 2 J HP = 57, 1 J HPt = 581 Hz) and 4.28 ppm ( 2 J HP = 51, 1 J HPt = 564 Hz) for the pairs 1b:2and 1c:2, respectively. We initially postulated a rapid equilibration between a terminal and bridging hydride as in 4a to account for the sole low-frequency signal recorded. In fact, we could investigate such a solution dynamic process for compound 4a through exchange spectroscopy (EXSY) experiments at variable temperature (from 30 to 55 1C, in tol-d 8 ). An Eyring analysis led to the activation parameters DG ‡ 298 = 17.6 kcal mol 1 ,DH ‡ = 8.7 kcal mol 1 and DS ‡ =29.7 cal mol 1 (see Scheme S1 and Fig. S22 in the ESI†). We tentatively attribute the high negative value calculated for the entropic parameter to coordination of the triflimide anion to the electrophilic gold centre in the key transition state of the exchange process. Nonetheless, we were unable to split the single hydride signal at ca. 4 ppm after hydrogenation of pairs 1b:2and 1c:2even at low temperature (80 1C). This fact, along with their corresponding 31 P{ 1 H} spectra, which clearly differs from that of 4a (see ESI†), and also the appearance of distinctive infrared signals due to hydride ligands at 2144 (1b:2+H 2 ) and 2141 (1c:2+H 2 )cm 1 , dissimilar to that of 4a (2064 cm 1 ), led us to consider the formation of a rare cis-type dihydride Scheme 1 Bimetallic Lewis adduct formation in 1:2 systems. Scheme 2 Reaction of Au(I)/Pt(0) bimetallic pairs with H 2 in toluene solution. Communication ChemComm Open Access Article. Published on 19 July 2022. Downloaded on 11/3/2022 3:25:09 PM. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. View Article Online
9146 | Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 9144–9147 This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022 structure with a Au(m-H) 2 Pt core. Trogler and co-workers investigated in the 1980s the cis–trans isomerization of squareplanar Pt(II) dihydride complexes of formula Pt(PR 3 ) 2 (H) 2 , 9,13 demonstrating that only in the case of particularly small phosphines the cis-isomer can be detected (e.g. 20% and 3% of cis-isomer in toluene solution for PMe 3 and PEt 3 , respectively, while completely undetected for bulkier ligands). 9 Though electronic arguments (trans influence) seems to support the preference for the cis-isomer, trans-dihydrides are thermodynamically favoured, 14 in part due to the dominance of steric effects. In fact, the only available information on these elusive isomers derive from the use of chelating phosphine ligands that geometrically constrain the cis-conformation. 15 However, no other unconstrained cis-dihydrides complexes have been reported since the early work of Trogler, 16 despite widespread examples of square planar Pt(II)trans-dihydrides. 17 Our assumption of a bis-(m-H) core is consistent with our 1 H NMR data compared to the aforesaid limited examples of Pt(II)cis-dihydrides and also fits with our simulation using gnmr software (Fig. S15, ESI†). However, it seems rather surprising, even more considering an additional interaction with the bulky [(PCyp 2 Ar Xyl2 )Au] + fragment, that a cis-type dihydride isomer may exist for such an extremely crowded environment. X-Ray diffraction studies allowed us to confirm the contrasting reactivity between the pairs 1a:2and 1c:2.Whiletheformerleads to the heterobimetallic trans-dihydride 4a (Fig. 2), the latter indeed activates H 2 to yield the unique cis-type dihydride 5c (Fig.2;and thereby 1b:2towards cis-dihydride 5b). Compounds 4a and 5c were crystallized from their concentrated toluene solutions at 25 1C. Compound 4a is characterized by a Pt–Au bond distance of 2.7628(7) Å, comparable to other Pt(m-H)Au species, 18 and further confirming the presence of a bridging hydride. The transdisposition of the Pt(II) fragment is illustrated by an almost ideal P–Pt–P angle of 175.76(10)1. In stark contrast, the analogous angle in compound 5c is drastically decreased to 107.53(3)1, similar to Pt(II)cis-dihydride structures geometrically constrained by chelating phosphines. 15 This structural disposition entails a high proximity between the two PMe 2 Ar Dtbp2 phosphines, which is partly compensated by a slightly elongated Pt–P bond in 5c (P1–Pt: 2.3178(7) Å) compared to 4a (2.292(2) and 2.296(2) Å). The Pt centre thus adopts an almost ideal trigonal arrangement with respect to the phosphines andgoldfragment(P1–Pt–Au, 125.654(19)1; P2–Pt–Au, 126.32(2)1). This could be rationalized as the coordination of the electrophilic [LAu] + fragment to an electron rich Pt(II)cis-dihydride, as previously proposed by Venanzi for other related heterobimetallic species. 18a We decided to investigate the effect of using THF as a polar solvent, which has been shown in the past to drastically affect selectivity in cis–trans isomerization. 9,13 While the outcome of hydrogenation for the pair 1c:2was not affected by solvent, dissimilar results were found in the case of 1a:2and 1b:2.In contrast, using 1,2-difluorobenzene did not offer any difference compared to toluene. For the pair 1a:2, carrying out the reaction in THF resulted in the appearance of an additional minor Au/Pt species (4a0,ca. 25%) with multinuclear NMR resonances very similar to those of 4a. Two new hydride signals were recorded at 2.63 and 8.87 ppm, which appear as broad, as well as those of 4a. Cooling down the NMR probe sharpened the two pairs of signals, while coalescence was reached at 30 1C (see Fig. S18, ESI†). Evaporation of volatiles and addition of toluene reverses the mixture towards clean formation of 4a. Kinetic parameters for this dynamic process were obtained from lineshape analysis in the temperature interval from 20 to 60 1C, leading to DH ‡ = 16.1 kcal mol 1 and DS ‡ = 31.6 cal mol K 1 , which correspond to a DG ‡ 298 of 6.7 kcal mol 1 (see ESI†). Once more the strong entropic contribution is associated to weak coordination of triflimide to access 4a0, which in this case would entail desolvation of THF. More interesting is the solvent effect on the pair 1b:2, where the selectivity was inverted and a mixture of 4b and 5b in an approximate 9:1 ratio was recorded by 1 H NMR monitoring (Fig. S17, ESI†). In fact, drying under vacuum a toluene solution of pure cis-dihydride 5b and redissolving the residue in THF leads to the same 9 :1 ratio of 4b and 5b (Scheme 3). This result is opposed to prior studies by Trogler, where shifting to more polar solvents tend to favour cisdihydride species. 9 To complete these studies and offerafirsthintofthebimetallic H 2 cleavage mechanism, we carried out some preliminary studies to determine the kinetic isotope effect (KIE). Those were run in duplicates for the pairs 1a:2and 1b:2in both toluene-d 8 and THFFig. 2 ORTEP diagrams for compounds 4a and 5c. Thermal ellipsoids are drawn at the 50% probability. Metal hydrides could not be located in the difference Fourier electron density map. Counterion and hydrogen atoms omitted and tert-butyl, cyclopentyl and methyl groups from aryl rings in wireframe format for clarity. ChemComm Communication Open Access Article. Published on 19 July 2022. Downloaded on 11/3/2022 3:25:09 PM. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. View Article Online
This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022 Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 9144–9147 | 9147 d 8 at 0 1C to facilitate kinetic analysis (see Fig. S23–S26, ESI†). Interestingly, we calculated inverse KIEs for the reactions carried out in toluene, which account for 0.74 0.04 for the formation of 4a andanevenstrongerinverseKIEof0.490.09 associated to the appearance of 5b. These values correlate well with our prior studies on hydrogen splitting by 1a–b:[Pt(P t Bu 3 ) 2 ]pairs(1a,0.46 0.04; 1b,0.500.02), where a genuine bimetallic FLP mechanism could be stated based on a thorough experimental/computational approach. 5c On the contrary, kinetic studies performed herein in THF led to normal KIEs of 1.33 0.05 and 2.11 0.55 due to 1a:2 and 1b:2, respectively. We are yet unsure on the precise nature of the contrasting KIEs as a function of solvent, but we have already gathered some relevant information that set the basis of our future mechanistic studies. First, similar and distinctive KIEs depend on solvent and not on product distribution, which speaks in favour of acommonmechanismforH 2 cleavage. Also, the medium size phosphine seems to provide an ideal scenario to freeze the cis– trans isomerization, which cannot be rate-limiting as it occurs very rapidly (or never does occur for the more hindered 5c). The strong effect of THF on the KIEs likewise suggests an active participation of the triflimide anion, which is expected to be strongly solvated only by the ethereal solvent. It probably has an impact as well on the availability of the electrophilic [Au(PR 2 Ar’)] + fragment, which agrees with the moderately higher rates of H 2 splitting in THF (see ESI†for details). In addition, the absence of H/D scrambling when exposing compounds 1to H 2 /D 2 atmosphere (1: 1) in either toluene or THF rules out the active participation of the ethereal solvent or triflimidate as basic partners for H–H bond cleavage. In conclusion, we report the bimetallic activation of dihydrogen by three Au(I)/Pt(0) pairs whose monometallic fragments are all stabilized by sterically crowded terphenyl phosphines. Cooperation between the two metals is evinced by complete absence of reactivity for the individual complexes. Besides, having two metallic fragments of great steric bulk allowed us to isolate a unique structure characterized by a Au(m-H) 2 Pt core. It represents virtually the only example of a cis-dihydride group 10 d 8 complex, of relevance for a broad spectrum of catalytic reactions, and in which isomerization is not geometrically quenched by using chelating scaffolds or favoured by particularly small phosphines. N. H. and F. C. M. synthesised and characterised all new complexes and carried out reactivity studies. M. T. M. synthesized the platinum precursor. M. C. N. and J. C. supervised the overall project. N. H. and F. C. 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