Antimony(III)-selenium complexes with synergetic effect between Sb-Se bond and Sb center dot center dot center dot pi interactions

Nandeshwar, Muneshwar and Tarannum, Ibtesham and Singh, Saurabh Kumar and Prabusankar, Ganesan (2022) Antimony(III)-selenium complexes with synergetic effect between Sb-Se bond and Sb center dot center dot center dot pi interactions. Polyhedron, 225. pp. 1-7. ISSN 0277-5387

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Abstract

The imidazole-selone antimony(III) complexes have been described with unique bonding situations around the antimony center. The mononuclear complexes, (L-1)SbCl3 (1) and (L-2)SbCl3 (2) were isolated from the reaction between SbCl3 and corresponding symmetrically crowded, 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropyl phenyl) imidazole selone (L-1) and unsymmetrically crowded, 2,(2,6-benzhydryl-4-methyl phenyl) imidazole pyridine selone (L-2), respectively. The bonding nature of 1 and 2 differ remarkably due to the unique steric hindrance around the antimony center. Besides, the lone-pair-pi-hole interaction was observed in 1 and 2. The extent of Se -{\textgreater} Sb bonding and (aryl)C -{\textgreater} Sb bonding were further investigated by density functional theory (DFT), including natural bond orbital (NBO), natural population analysis (NPA), and electron density difference (EDD) methods. The theoretical predictions are nearly convincing with a single crystal X-ray analysis. The increasing steric bulk of the imidazole-selone from symmetric to unsymmetrical nature was found to greatly influence the donor-acceptor magnitude of Se -{\textgreater} Sb bonding and (aryl)C -{\textgreater} Sb bonding and lone-pair-pi-hole interactions. The L-2 in 2 acts as a good sigma-donor and pi-donor to Sb(III) compare to L-1 in 1.

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IITH Creators:

IITH Creators	ORCiD
Singh, Saurabh Kumar	UNSPECIFIED
Prabusankar, Ganesan	UNSPECIFIED

Item Type:

Article

Additional Information:

We gratefully acknowledge the DST-SERB (EMR/2017/001211) for financial support. MN thanks CSIR-SRF for the Ph.D. fellowship. IT thanks UGC for the Ph.D. fellowship. SKS acknowledges the Department of Science and Technology for the Start-up Research Grant (SRG/2020/001323) and IIT Hyderabad for generous funding. We acknowledge the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) for providing computing resources of `PARAM SEVA' at IIT,Hyderabad.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

access, Antimony, approximation, catalysts, Density functional theory, elements, energy, Energy decomposition analysis, ligands, Lone-pair-pi-hole interaction, Main group chemistry, menshutkin complex, n-heterocyclic carbenes, Selone, si, valence

Subjects:

Chemistry

Divisions:

Department of Chemistry

Depositing User:

. LibTrainee 2021

Date Deposited:

05 Sep 2022 08:44

Last Modified:

05 Sep 2022 08:44

URI:

http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/10425