Dirhenium paddlewheel compounds have shown unique structural and photophysical properties due to the quadruple bond between rhenium atoms and the bridging ligands between the rhenium atoms. Many of these compounds have had only one type of bridging ligand between the rhenium atoms. In this project, Re2(OAc)2Cl4 is reacted with formamidine ligands ((p-XArN)2HCH; X = -H, -Cl, -OCH3, -CH3, -C(O)CH3) under various conditions to give Re2(III, III) paddlewheel compounds with alternating bridging acetate and formamidinate  ligands and axial chloride ligands. Preliminary results of the compounds' structural and photophysical properties and electrochemical behavior will be presented.

New dirhenium paddlewheel compounds with alternating <i>O,O'</i>- and <i>N, N'</i>- bridging ligands

245th National Meeting (2013)

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New dirhenium paddlewheel compounds with alternating O,O'- and N, N'- bridging ligands