Main-Group-Metal Chlorobenzene Complexes

Abstract

Stable group 13 metal chlorobenzene complexes of general type [(iPr2-ATI)MR][B(C6F5)4](ClPh) (M = Al, Ga, In; iPr2-ATI = N,N‘-diisopropylaminotroponiminate) have been isolated. X-ray crystallographic studies show that the PhCl ligands in these compounds are coordinated by dative M−ClPh bonding and suggest that π-stacking interactions between the PhCl phenyl ring and the iPr2-ATI ligand may also contribute to the PhCl coordination.