New phosphino-oxazoline and related phosphino-iminolate palladium complexes; structure of an unusual zwitterionic dinuclear Pd(II) complex

Reaction of the phosphino-oxazoline chiral ligand (4-(R)-phenyl-2-oxazoline-2-ylmethyl)diphenylphosphine)(abbreviated (R)-PCH2oxPh) with [Pd (dmba-C,N)(mu-Cl)]2 or [PdCl2(cod)](cod = 1,5-cyclooctadiene) led to the formation of [Pd(dmba-C,N){(R)-PCH2oxPh-2P,N}]Cl 1 and [PdCl2{(R)PCH2oxPh-2P,N}]5, respectively. Deprotonation of the palladium phosphino-oxazoline complex 1 occurred at the PCH2 group and resulted in the formation of an anionic P,N chelate with a prochiral carbon atom in [Pd(dmba-C,N){(R)-PCHoxPh-2P,N}]2. Reaction of 2 with [Pd(dmba-C,N)(muCl)]2 led to the unexpected and diastereoselective formation of the dinuclear complex [{Pd(dmba-C,N)Cl}-(R)-{CHPPh2-(R)-oxPh}Pd(dmba-C,N)]4 in which a Pd(dmba-C,N)Cl moiety is directly bonded to the carbon to the P atom of the anionic P,N chelate of 2. This results in an unsual zwitterionic structure. In the course of this work, crystals of [(dmba-C,N)Pd(mu-OH)(mu-Cl)Pd(dmba-C,N)]·1/2[Pd(dmba-C,N)(mu-Cl)]27 were obtained and the single crystal X-ray analyses of complexes 2, 4·2THF, 5·CH2Cl2, [PdCl(Me){(R)-PCH2oxPh-2P,N}]6 and 7 are presented.