The PN
2S chelate
N-[
N-(3-diphenylphosphinopropionyl)glycyl]-
S-tritylcysteine methyl ester [PN
2S(Trt)-OMe] wassynthesized and reacted with ReOCl
3(PPh
3)
2 and Ph
4P[ReOCl
4]. The reactions of both tritylated and detritylatedligands with Re
VO precursors gave two diastereomers,
9a and
9b, of the ReO(PN
2S-OMe) complex. The twoisomers, produced in a 1:1 molar ratio, are stable and do not interconvert. They were separated by reverse-phaseHPLC and characterized by NMR, FT-IR, and UV-visible spectroscopy and electrospray mass spectrometry. X-rayanalysis established for
9a the presence in the solid of the syn isomer. Compound
9a, C
21H
23N
2O
5PSRe, crystallizedfrom warm acetonitrile in the triclinic space group
P,
a = 9.828(2) Å,
b = 11.163(2) Å,
c = 11.641(2) Å,
=106.48(3)
,
= 109.06(3)
,
= 102.81(3)
,
V = 1085.7(4) Å
3,
Z = 2. The PN
2S coordination set is in theequatorial plane, and the complex shows a distorted square pyramidal coordination. The anti configuration assignedto
9b is consistent with all the available physicochemical data. Follow-up of the reaction of the detritylated ligandwith Ph
4P[ReOCl
4] in ethanol or acetonitrile indicated that the phosphorus atom of the chelate binds first to themetal and that this bond acts as the driving force for coordination.