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Enlarging the family of ferrocenylphosphine dinuclear rhodium complexes: synthesis and X-ray structure of a novel “A-frame”-type trimetallic Rh/Fe/Rh complex

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Abstract The symmetrically substituted ligand 1,1 ′ -bis[di(5-methyl-2-furyl)phosphino]ferrocene ( 1 ) has been obtained from the bromophosphine BrP(Fu Me ) 2 and the dilithioferrocene/TMEDA adduct. The quantitative addition of this ferrocene derivative to the tetracarbonyl dimer [(CO) 4 Rh 2 {μ-(S t Bu) 2 }] leads, through decarbonylation, to the dinuclear rhodium complex [(CO) 2 Rh 2 {μ-(S t Bu) 2 }{μ- P , P -Fc[P(Fu Me ) 2 ] 2 }] ( 2 ) in high yield. A X-ray structure [ orthorhombic , space group P 2 1 2 1 2 1 ; a =11.2982(2) A, b =13.3165(3) A, c =27.2687(7) A] and the solution multinuclear NMR characterization are reported, which show that the rare “quasi-closed bridging” A-frame structure of the complex is rather similar to the one reported for [(CO) 2 Rh 2 {μ-(S t Bu) 2 }{μ- P , P -dppf}] in solid state. However, in solution the furyl-containing ferrocenylphosphine complex presents a greater fluxionality, together with an electronic environment at phosphorus very different from the dppf analogue ( δ P =−10 and 27 ppm, respectively).