Agostic interaction

Agostic interaction

Agostic interaction is a term, in organometallic chemistry, for the interaction of a coordinately-unsaturated transition metal with a C-H bond, when the two electrons involved in the C-H bond enter the empty d orbital of a transition metal, resulting in a two electron three center bond. ["Agostic Interaction". IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology. 21 Jan 2008. http://www.iupac.org/goldbook/AT06984.pdf] . Many catalytic transformations, e.g. oxidative addition and reductive elimination, are proposed to proceed via intermediates featuring agostic interactions. Agostic interactions are observed throughout organometallic chemistry in alkyl, alkylidene, and polyenyl ligands.

History

The term agostic, derived from the Greek word for "to hold close to oneself", was coined by Maurice Brookhart and Malcolm Green to describe this and many other interactions between a transition metal and a C-H bond.Often such agostic interactions involve alkyl or aryl groups that are held close to the metal center through an additional σ-bond.Maurice Brookhart, Malcolm L. H. Green, Carbon-hydrogen-transition metal bonds. "Journal of Organometallic Chemistry", 250(1), 395-408 (1983). doi|10.1016/0022-328X(83)85065-7.] [Maurice Brookhart, Malcolm L. H. Green, and Gerard Parkin "Agostic interactions in transition metal compounds" Proceeding of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences 2007, volume 104, 6908–6914.doi|10.1073/pnas.0610747104] .

Short interactions between hydrocarbon substituents and coordinatively unsaturated metal complexes have been noted since the 1960s. For example, in tris(triphenylphosphine ruthenium dichloride, a short interaction is observed between the Ru(II) center and a hydrogen atom on the ortho position of one of the nine phenyl rings. [Sam J. La Placa and James A. Ibers "A Five-Coordinated "d"6 Complex: Structure of Dichlorotris(triphenylphosphine)ruthenium (II)" Inorganic Chemistry, 1965, volume 4, pp 778 - 783. doi|10.1021/ic50028a002] Numerous borohydride complexes were also described crystallographically that were described using the two-electron three-center bonding model. The nature of the interaction was foreshadowed in main group chemistry in the structural chemistry of trimethylaluminium.

Characteristics of agostic bonds

Agostic interactions are best demonstrated by crystallography. Neutron diffraction data has shown that C-H and M-H bond distances are 5-20% longer than expected for isolated metal hydride and hydrocarbons. The distance between the metal and the hydrogen is typically 1.8 - 2.3 Ǻ, and the M-H-C angle falls in the range 90 - 140°. The presence of a 1H NMR signal that is shifted upfield from that of a normal aryl or alkane, often to the region normally assigned to hydride ligands. The coupling constant 1JCH is typically lowered to 70-100 Hz versus the 125 Hz expected for a normal sp3 carbon-hydrogen bond.

trength of bond

On the basis of experimental and computational studies, the stabilization arising from an agostic interaction is estimated to be 10–15 kcal/mol. Thus, agostic interactions are stronger than most hydrogen bonds. Agostic bonds sometimes play a role in catalysis by increasing 'rigidity' in transition states. For instance, in Ziegler-Natta catalysis the highly electrophilic metal center has agostic interactions with the growing polymer chain. This increased rigidity influences the stereoselectivity of the polymerization process.

Related bonding interactions

The term agostic is reserved to describe two-electron, three-center bonding interactions between "carbon, hydrogen," and a metal. Two-electron three-center bonding is clearly implicated in the complexation of H2, e.g., in W(CO)3(PCy3)2H2, which is closely related to the agostic complex shown in the figure. [Kubas, G. J., "Metal Dihydrogen and σ-Bond Complexes", Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, 2001] Silane binds to metal centers often via agostic-like, three-centered Si-H-M interactions. Because these interactions do not include carbon, however, they are not classified as agostic.

Anagostic bonds

Certain M---H-C interactions are not classified as "agostic" but are described by the term "anagostic." Anagostic interactions are more electrostatic in character. In terms of structures of anagostic interactions, the M---H distances and M-H-C angles fall into the ranges 2.3-2.9 Ǻ and 110-170°, respectively. [Braga D, Grepioni F, Tedesco E, Biradha K., Desiraju G. R. (1997). Organometallics 16, 1846-1856]

Function

Agostic interactions serve a key function in olefin polymerization and stereochemistry, as well as migratory insertion.

References

External links

*GoldBookRef | title = agostic | file = A00187
*http://www.ilpi.com/organomet/agostic.html


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