A series of lanthanocene derivatives containing the
o-aminothiophenolate ligand have been synthesized,and their reactivities toward carbodiimide have been investigated. Reaction of
N,
N'-diisopropylcarbodiimide(
iPrN=C=N
iPr) with [Cp
2Yb(
o-H
2NC
6H
4S)]
2·2THF (Cp = C
5H
5) (
1) yields a centrosymmetric dimer,[Cp(THF)Yb(
-
3:
1-SC
6H
4N=C(NH
iPr)N
iPr)]
2 (
2), indicating that the adjacent NH
2 group can add tothe C=N double bonds of carbodiimide and one cyclopentadienyl group is eliminated. [Cp
2Dy(
o-H
2NC
6H
4S)]
2·3THF, obtained by protolysis of Cp
3Ln with
o-aminothiophenol, reacts with 2 or 1 equiv of
iPrN=C=N
iPr in THF at room temperature to give the partial amino group addition product CpDy(THF)[
-
3:
1-SC
6H
4N=C(NH
iPr)N
iPr)](
-
2:
1-SC
6H
4NH
2)DyCp
2·THF (
4). When Cp
3Dy reacts with
o-aminothiophenol, and subsequently with
iPrN=C=N
iPr in toluene at room temperature, we isolatedcomple
x 4 and a small amount of [Cp
2Dy(
o-H
2NC
6H
4S)]
2·2THF (
5) and [Cp(THF)Dy(
-
3:
1-SC
6H
4N=C(NH
iPr)N
iPr)]
2 (
6). Treatment of 2 equiv of
iPrN=C=N
iPr with
3 in THF under reflu
xtemperature also gave
4; the residual NH
2 group cannot continuously add into the C=N bonds of othercarbodiimide molecules. Reaction of Cp
3Er with 2 equiv of
o-aminothiophenol and subsequently with
2equiv of
iPrN=C=N
iPr in THF at room temperature yields the bis-addition product (C
5H
5)Er[SC
6H
4NC(NH
iPr)
2]
2 (
7). However, when Cp
3Er reacts with 2 equiv of
o-aminothiophenol, and subsequentlywith
1 equiv of
iPrN=C=N
iPr, the organic disulfide (
iPrHN)
2CNC
6H
4SSC
6H
4NC(NH
iPr)
2 (
8) can beisolated. These results indicate that the addition of the adjacent amino group into the C=N double bondsof the carbodiimide molecule is strongly affected by the metal ion character and the steric hindrance ofthe ligands. All of the new compounds have been characterized by elemental analysis and spectroscopicproperties. Their structures have also been determined through X-ray single-crystal diffraction analysis.