Octahedral Complexes with Predetermined Helical Chirality: Xylene-Bridged Bis([4,5]-pineno-2,2'-bipyridine) Ligands (Chiragen[o-, m-, p-xyl]) with Ruthenium(II)

Hansruedi Mürner; Alex von Zelewsky; Helen Stoeckli-Evans

doi:10.1021/ic951539e

Octahedral Complexes with Predetermined Helical Chirality: Xylene-Bridged Bis([4,5]-pineno-2,2'-bipyridine) Ligands (Chiragen[o-, m-, p-xyl]) with Ruthenium(II)

Inorg Chem. 1996 Jun 19;35(13):3931-3935. doi: 10.1021/ic951539e.

Authors

Hansruedi Mürner¹, Alex von Zelewsky, Helen Stoeckli-Evans

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Pérolles, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland, and Institute of Chemistry, University of Neuchâtel, Avenue de Bellevaux 51, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

PMID: 11666586
DOI: 10.1021/ic951539e

Abstract

Tetradentate ligands are obtained by joining two optically active [4,5]-pineno-2,2'-bipyridine molecules in a stereoselective reaction, where two new stereogenic centers are created. These ligands are new members of the chiragen family that form OC-6 complexes with predetermined helical chirality. Ru(II) complexes with 4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine occupying the remaining coordination sites have been synthesized with all three new ligands. Characterization of the ruthenium complexes by NMR spectroscopy confirm C(2)-symmetric structures in solution. CD spectra show that the complexes are composed of only one helical diastereomer with the expected absolute configurations. In addition, a strong chiral amplification is observed, if precursors of low enantiomeric purity are used. This is due to the inability of ligands that are heterochiral in the two bpy moieties to coordinate to one center. X-ray structural data were obtained for the complex Delta-[RuCG[o-xyl](4,4'-DMbpy)](PF(6))(2). Crystal data (Mo Kalpha, 298 K): trigonal, space group R3, a = 52.986(4) Å, c = 10.545(1) Å, V = 25639(4) Å(3), Z = 18, R1 = 0.087, and wR2 = 0.0986 for 2609 observed reflections.