文摘
The first characterized amidinate complexes of Ge havebeen prepared using alkylamidinates as ancillaryligands. Spectroscopic and structural characterization of the twocomplexes, (CyNC(Me)NCy)2GeII(1) and(CyNC(tBu)NCy)2GeII(2) (Cy = cyclohexyl), revealed that the Ge coordinationgeometry is distorted tetrahedral inwhich one of the vertices is occupied by a lone pair of electrons.Both 1 and 2 exhibited one bidentate andonemonodentate ("dangling") ligand. Rapid oxidative addition ofchalcogen atom sources (styrene sulfide and Se) tothese complexes resulted in a series of rare terminal chalcogenidocomplexes with the formulas (CyNC(R)NCy)2Ge=Ch [R = Me, Ch = S (3),Se(4); R = tBu, Ch = S(5), Se(6)]. The spectroscopic dataand X-ray structureof 6 revealed a terminal Ge=Se complex. Mixedamidinato-amido analogues were similarly obtained. Forexample,[(CyNC(R)NCy)GeII[N(SiMe3)2](R = Me, tBu) react to yield the correspondingterminal chalcogenido complexes.In the case of[(CyNC(Me)NCy)GeII[N(SiMe3)2]Se(10), a crystallographic study confirmed the presence of aterminalGe=Se bond.