Ferrocene-Containing Polycarbosilazanes via the Alkaline-Earth-Catalyzed Dehydrocoupling of Silanes and Amines

Louis J. Morris; George R. Whittell; Jean Charles Eloi; Mary F. Mahon; Frank Marken; Ian Manners; Michael S. Hill

doi:10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00444

Ferrocene-Containing Polycarbosilazanes via the Alkaline-Earth-Catalyzed Dehydrocoupling of Silanes and Amines

Louis J. Morris
, George R. Whittell
, Jean Charles Eloi
, Mary F. Mahon
, Frank Marken
, Ian Manners
, Michael S. Hill

University of Bristol
University of Victoria

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We report the use of the alkaline-earth (Ae) metal-catalyzed dehydrocoupling of silanes and amines for the synthesis of ferrocene-containing polycarbosilazanes. The barium complex [Ba(N(SiMe ₃) ₂) ₂·(THF) ₂] catalyzed the dehydrocoupling of the hydrosilane FeCp(CpSiPhH ₂) (1) with 1,4-(H ₂NCH ₂) ₂C ₆H ₄ under mild conditions to give a polycarbosilazane with pendant ferrocene groups. The polymer could be readily cross-linked by the addition of phenylsilane to the unquenched reaction mixture. Well-defined polycarbosilazanes with ferrocene in the main chain were also obtained from the dehydrocoupling of hydrosilanes Fe(Cp(SiPhH ₂)) ₂ (3) and Fe(Cp(SiMe ₂H)) ₂ (IX) with 1,4-(H(Me)NCH ₂) ₂C ₆H ₄ and 1,4-(H ₂NCH ₂) ₂C ₆H ₄, respectively. Crystalline monomeric analogues, FeCp(Cp(SiPh(NHBn) ₂)) (2, Bn = CH ₂(C ₆H ₅)), and Fe(Cp(SiPh(NHBn) ₂)) ₂ (4), were also obtained via the dehydrocoupling benzylamine with 1 and 3, respectively. The barium-catalyzed dehydrocoupling of diaminoferrocene with Ph ₂SiH ₂ or Ph(Rc)SiH ₂ (6, Rc = (C ₅H ₄)Ru(C ₅H ₅)) did not result in polymer, but instead in the formation of the silazane-bridged ansa-[3]ferrocenophanes (Fe(ν-C ₅H ₄NH) ₂SiPh ₂) (5) and (Fe(ν-C ₅H ₄NH) ₂SiPh(Rc)) (7), respectively. Both polymeric and molecular products were electrochemically investigated, and the polymers proved to be promising precursors to magnetic iron-containing ceramics in yields of up to 64%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3629-3648
Number of pages	20
Journal	Organometallics
Volume	38
Issue number	19
Early online date	24 Sept 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00444
Publication status	Published - 14 Oct 2019

Funding

We acknowledge financial support from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Catalysis (EP/L016443/1) and Dr. John Lowe (University of Bath) for his assistance with DOSY experiments. I.M. thanks the University of Bristol for support and the Canadian Government for a C150 Research Chair.

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