While coordination chemistry is prevalent in most transition metal complexes, the development of analogous main group compounds has received considerably less attention. In recent years, however, cationic coordination complexes of the main group elements have been achieved with the majority employing the pnictogen (Group 15) elements as donors and acceptors.1 By employing prototypical phosphine and amine donor ligands, we have extended this trend to the Group 13 elements. The results of our ongoing study of accessing both neutral and cationic Group 13 complexes through coordination chemistry will be presented. We look to examine the structural trends in these complexes, comparing the effect of both ligand and metal on the geometry and stability of the product. Solid-state structures and relevant supporting spectroscopic data will be presented. Additionally, various computational methods will be employed to examine the electronic structure of the complexes to further rationalize the structural diversity observed, as well as to predict the outcome of future work in this area.1. A. P. M. Robertson, P. A. Gray, N. Burford, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014 , DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307658

Structural trends of neutral and cationic aluminum(III) and gallium(III) donor-acceptor complexes

248th National Meeting (2014)

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