Synthesis, Structure and Magnetic Properties of a Novel Linear Cu II ‐Trimer Complex

Coordination Affinity of Cu(II)-Based Silsesquioxanes toward N,N-Ligands and Associated Skeletal Rearrangements: Cage and Ionic Products Exhibiting a High Catalytic Activity in Oxidation Reactions

An unusual skeletal rearrangement of piperazine into ethylenediamine has been observed for the first time as a result of an attempt to synthesize a piperazine-linked metal-organic framework (MOF) using cage Cu(II),Na-phenylsilsequixane as a potential building block. Instead of the expected "metallasilsesquioxane-based MOF", a Cu₆ complex 1 coordinated both by silsesquioxane and ethylenediamine ligands was isolated. An effort to reproduce this result via direct interaction of Cu-phenylsilsequioxane and ethylenediamine surprisingly afforded two other types of complexes, copper-sodium 2 and copper 3 ionic products. Cationic components in both products 2 and 3 are represented by (i) copper and sodium ions (in the case of 2) or (ii) copper ions exclusively (in the case of 3) coordinated by ethylenediamine ligands. Both complexes 2 and 3 include Si₆-based condensed silsesquioxane fragments serving as anionic components of the products. Symptomatically, the types of the Si₆-frameworks in 2 and 3 are drastically different. More specifically, the Si₆ unit in 2 is an unprecedented distorted silsesquioxane skeleton consisting of two condensed tetramembered rings. Structural features of compounds 1-3 were established by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Compound 2 was found to catalyze the oxidation of cyclohexane to cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone with H₂O₂ (a mixture of these products was obtained after adding PPh₃ to the reaction solution) as well as the transformation of cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone under the action of tert-butyl hydroperoxide.

Si10Cu6N4 Cage Hexacoppersilsesquioxanes Containing N Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and High Catalytic Activity in Peroxide Oxidations

The synthesis, composition, and catalytic properties of a new family of hexanuclear Cu(II)-based phenylsilsesquioxanes are described here. Structural studies of 17 synthesized compounds revealed the general principle underlying their molecular topology: viz., a central metal oxide layer consisting of two Cu₃ trimers is coordinated by two cyclic [PhSiO_1.5]₅ siloxanolate ligands to form a skewed sandwich architecture with the composition [(PhSiO_1.5)₁₀(CuO)₆]²⁺. In addition to this O ligation by the siloxanolate rings, two opposite copper ions are additionally coordinated by the nitrogen atoms of corresponding N ligand(s), such as 2,2'-bipyridine (compounds 1-9), 1,10-phenanthroline (compounds 10-13), mixed 1,10-phenanthroline/2,2'-bipyridine (compound 14), or bathophenanthroline (compounds 15-17). Finally, the charge balance is maintained by two HO^- (compounds 1-7, 10-13, and 15-17), two H₃CO^- (compound 8), or two CH₃COO^- (compounds 9 and 14) anions. Complexes 1 and 10 exhibited a high activity in the oxidative amidation oxidation of alcohols. Compounds 1, 10, and 15 are very efficient homogeneous catalysts in the oxidation of alkanes and alcohols with peroxides.

Synthesis of a 12-membered cyclic siloxane possessing alkoxysilyl groups as a nanobuilding block and its use for preparation of gas permeable membranes

A twelve-membered cyclic siloxane possessing alkoxysilyl groups was newly synthesized as a nanobuilding block to form a gas permeable membrane.

Magnetic properties of a novel quasi-2D Cu(II)-trimer system

We present structural and magnetic data of a new Cu(2+)(S = 1/2)-containing magnetic trimer system 2b·3CuCl(2)·2H(2)O (b = betaine, C(5)H(11)NO(2)). The trimers form a quasi-2D quantum spin system with an unusual intra-layer exchange coupling topology, which, in principle, supports diagonal four-spin exchange. To describe the magnetic properties, a 2D effective interacting-trimer model has been developed including an intra-trimer coupling J and two inter-trimer couplings J(a) and J(b). The low-energy description and effective parameters are obtained from numerical calculations based on four coupled trimers (with periodic boundary conditions). Fits to the experimental data using this model yield the magnetic coupling constants J/k(B) = -15 K and J(a)/k(B) = J(b)/k(B) = -4 K. These parameters describe the susceptibility and magnetization data very well over the whole temperature and field range investigated. Moreover, the model calculations indicate that, for certain ranges of the ratio J(b)/J(a), which might be accessible by either chemical substitution and/or hydrostatic pressure, the low-energy properties of 2b·3CuCl(2)·2H(2)O will be dominated by non-trivial four-spin exchange processes.