Carbonyl{3,3′-di-tert-butyl-5,5′-dimethoxy-2,2′-bis[(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaphospholan-2-yl)oxy]biphenyl-κ2P,P′}hydrido(triphenylphosphane-κP)rhodium(I) diethyl ether trisolvate

Carbonyl-bis-{6,6'-[(3,3'-di-tert-butyl-5,5'-dimeth-oxy-1,1'-biphenyl-2,2'-di-yl)bis(oxy)]bis-(dibenzo[d,f][1,3,2]-dioxaphosphepine)}hydridorhodium(I) toluene-d 8 2.25-solvate

The crystal-structure determination of the title compound, [RhH(C₄₆H₄₄O₈P₂)₂(CO)]·2.25C₇D₈, is reported. The bis-phosphite ligand, C₄₆H₄₄O₈P₂, is well known as Biphephos. One specific characteristic of this hydrido rhodium(I) monocarbonyl complex is that one bis-phosphite ligand is coordinated in the expected bidentate mode and the other is coordinated in a monodentate mode. Thus, one phosphite moiety remains non-coordinating. All three coordinating phospho-rus atoms occupy the equatorial positions in the trigonal-bipyramidal environment around the rhodium atom. The crystals of the hydrido rhodium(I) monocarbonyl complex contains deuterated solvent mol-ecules (toluene-d ₈). Most of them are included in the model, but the contributions of about 0.84 toluene per unit cell were removed from the diffraction data, using the SQUEEZE procedure in PLATON [Spek (2015 ▸). Acta Cryst. C71, 9-18].

{2-[Bis(2,4-di-tert-butylphenoxy)phosphanyloxy-κP]-3,5-di-tert-butylphenyl-κC1}{3,3′-di-tert-butyl-5,5′-dimethoxy-2,2′-bis[(1,1,2,2-tetraphenylethane-1,2-dioxy)phosphanyloxy-κP]biphenyl}rhodium(I) toluene-d82.7-solvate

The molecule of the title compound, [Rh(C42H62O3P)(C74H68O4P2]·2.7C7D8, consists of two phospharhodacyclic substructures sharing the Rh atom, which are formed by coordination/ortho-metallation of a triaryl phosphite, and by the coordination of a rigid bisphosphite, respectively. The metal displays a tetrahedrally distorted square-planar coordination geometry. Atert-butyl group shows rotational disorder over two positions with refined site occupancy of 0.561 (3):0.439 (3). Two partial-occupancy toluene solvent molecules are disordered over two orientations with site occupancies of 0.5:0.3 and 0.5:0.4, respectively. Intramolecular C—H...O hydrogen bonds are observed. In the crystal, complex molecules and toluene solvent molecules pack as alternating layers parallel to theacplane.