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Acid form of Trofimenko’s scorpionates, H(TpR,R′); comments on synthesis and solid-state structure of H(TptBu,Me)

Kuburat O. Saliu A , Jianhua Cheng A B , Robert McDonald A and Josef Takats https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4670-6581 A *
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A Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G2, Canada.

B Present address: State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun, 130022, China.

* Correspondence to: joe.takats@ualberta.ca

Handling Editor: George Koutsantonis

Australian Journal of Chemistry 75(9) 566-570 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH21305
Submitted: 26 November 2021  Accepted: 17 December 2021   Published: 18 February 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing.

Abstract

We report a re-examination of Trofimenko’s original protocol for the preparation of the acid form of his hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borates, H(TpR,R′), by the treatment of M(TpR,R′) with glacial acetic acid. It is concluded that the protocol is effective as long as the 3-substituent of the pyrazolyl moiety is sufficiently bulky to provide steric protection to the acidic N–H proton. The solid-state structure of H(TptBu,Me), the acid form of the popular TptBu,Me ligand is also presented.

Keywords: acid form tris(pyrazolyl)borate, ligand synthesis, protonolysis, scorpionates, structure, tripod ligand, zwitterion.


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