Copper Hydride Clusters with Cu9 and Cu13 Frameworks, Showing a Potential for Hydrogen Storage via Fluxional Exchange between Face-Capping and Interstitial Hydrides
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Abstract
Using meso-Ph2PCH2P(Ph)(CH2)3P(Ph)CH2PPh2 (meso-dpmppp), new copper hydride clusters, [Cu9H7(meso-dpmppp)3]X2 (X = PF6 (1a), BF4 (1b), and BPh4 (1c)), were synthesized and characterized to have a 4,4,4-tricapped trigonal prism (TTP) Cu9 core. 1a,b was converted by treatment with LiBH4 to [Cu9H8(meso-dpmppp)3]X (X = PF6 (2a), BF4 (2b)), which accommodates an additional hydride while retaining the TTP Cu9 core. In contrast to the static property of the eight face-capping hydrides of 2, five of the seven hydrides in 1 exhibited the fluxional behavior, which could be frozen at −80 °C into four face-capping and one interstitial hydrides. The Cu9 core of 1b could be expanded by treating with Ph2SiH2 and [Cu(MeCN)4]BF4 to give the centered icosahedral (CIH) Cu13 core of [Cu13H10(meso-dpmppp)3(MeCN)3](BF4)3 (3). The similar CIH cluster of [Cu13H10(meso-dpmppmNBn)3(MeCN)3](BF4)3 (4) was also synthesized using meso-Ph2PCH2P(Ph)CH2N(CH2C6H5)CH2P(Ph)CH2PPh2 (meso-dpmppmNBn). Treatment of 1a with H2 (1 atm) in the presence of DBU (1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]-7-undecene) gave 2a quantitatively, and 2a reacted easily with 1 equiv of TfOH or PhOH to be converted back to 1a with concomitant H2 formation, suggesting a potential for hydrogen storage through the fluxional exchange between face-capping and interstitial hydrides around the TTP scaffold.
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Inorganic Chemistry publishes fundamental studies in all phases of inorganic chemistry. Coverage includes experimental and theoretical reports on quantitative studies of structure and thermodynamics, kinetics, mechanisms of inorganic reactions, bioinorganic chemistry, and relevant aspects of organometallic chemistry, solid-state phenomena, and chemical bonding theory. Emphasis is placed on the synthesis, structure, thermodynamics, reactivity, spectroscopy, and bonding properties of significant new and known compounds.