Coordination modes of hydrazone and acyl-hydrazone ligands containing a pyridine group with the {Re(CO)3}+ fragment

Abstract

Four acyl-hydrazones derived from 5-hydroxypicolinohydrazide and 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde (HL11), 2-fluoro-4-hydroxybenzaldehyde (HL12), 2,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde (HL13) or 2-pyridinecarboxaldehyde (HL14) and two hydrazones derived from 2-hydrazino pyridine and 4-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde (HL21) or 4-diethylamino-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde (HL22) were synthesized and their X-ray structures determined. Twelve rhenium(I) complexes of formula [ReX(HLn)(CO)3] (X = Cl, Br) were obtained by treating these ligands with [ReX(CH3CN)2(CO)3], and the structures of some representative compounds were determined by X-ray diffraction.

The coordination geometry around rhenium(I) can be described as octahedral, with three carbon atoms in a fac configuration, the halogen atom and two nitrogen atoms from the hydrazone chain and the pyridine group, respectively. The carbonyl group of the acyl-hydrazone ligands does not participate in coordination in any of complexes HL11–HL14. The coordination mode of the ligands in all complexes could be established by comparing the IR and 1H NMR spectra.

Formation of the hydrazonate complexes only proved possible with the derivatives of HL22. A study of the corresponding single crystal showed the presence of the dimer [Re2(L22)2(CO)6], in which the phenolate group of the ligand of the dimer partner coordinates to rhenium after deprotonation. This same group is used to bind to the rhenium atom of the dimer partner at the position released by the halide.