Substitution on a methyl group of an acetylacetonate ligand: synthesis and structural characterization of oxobis[6-(phenylamino)hexane-2,4-dionato-O,O′]vanadium(<scp>IV</scp>), VO(Phad)₂

Abstract

From a melt reaction of VO(acac)2 and N,N′-diphenylformamidine, HDPhF, the title compound is isolated in high yield along with aniline; the new ligand found in 1 arises from the cleavage of a C–N bond in the HDPhF molecule and the substitution of two hydrogen atoms from a methyl group of an acac ligand.