Fluorinated alkoxides. Part X. Template syntheses leading to fluorinated β-imino-alkoxy complexes of four- and five-coordinate nickel(I1) and copper(I1)
Hexafluorodiacetonealcohol, HFDA, HOC(CF3)2CH2COCH3, is sufficiently acidic to coordinate to metal ions in an ionized form as a chelating, uninegative ligand. Complexes of Ni2 + and Cu2+ may be isolated, most conveniently by using a tridentate nitrogen-containing macrocycle as co-ligand so that five-coordinate unipositive compounds are produced. In the presence of metal ions, HFDA readily undergoes template condensation reactions with diamino-ethane or -propane to give conplexes of ionized β-imino alcohols, e.g. -OC(CF3)2- CH2C(CH3) : N(CH2)2N : C(CH3)CH2C(CF3)20- ; these conplexes are neutral and square planar but become five-coordinate by solvation in, e.g., pyridine. The use of triamines H2N- (CH2),NH(CH2).NH2 (where n = 2 or 3) in template syntheses with HFDA gives complexes in which the metal ion is five-coordinate; these do not undergo solvation.