Synthesis, reactivity and X-ray crystallographic characterization of chloro(propan-2-ol)bis(tetraisopropoxoaluminato)praseodymium(<scp>III</scp>) dimer, [{Pr[Al(OPrⁱ)₄]₂(PrⁱOH)(µ-Cl)}₂]

Abstract

The product of the 1 : 2 reaction between PrCl3·3PriOH and K[Al(OPri)4] in benzeno–propan-2-ol, has been shown by X-ray crystallographic analysis to be a heptacoordinated heteroleptic alkoxometallatopraseodymium(III) complex 1, which affords solvated and unsolvated species respectively by ligand displacement reactions and distillation in vacuo.