The complexes Re(CO)5ClO4,
Re(CO)5PO2F2, L2(CO)3Re(OClO3)
and L2(CO)3Re(PO2F2), where L2
= 2,2?-bipyridyl (bpy), have been synthesized by
bromide abstraction reactions from the respective rhenium carbonyl bromide
precursors. The complexes were characterized by infrared and mass spectroscopy.
The crystal structure of (bpy)(CO)3Re(PO2F2)
has been determined from X-ray diffraction data by the heavy-atom technique.
The crystals are triclinic, space group Pī with
a 8.620(3), b 15.912(5), c 6.466(3) Ǻ, α 102.08(8), β 83.29(8),
γ 95.08(4) and Z 2. The structure has been refined by full-matrix
least-squares from 2829 reflections to R = 0.084, Rw = 0.088. The
coordination geometry about rhenium is that of a distorted octahedron. Difluorophosphate coordinates to the metal centre by one of
its oxygen atoms. Formation of the difluorophosphate
by hydrolysis of hexafluorophosphate was shown by 31P n.m.r.
spectra.