USE OF POLIPHOSPHANES IN THE ASSEMBLY OF DISCRETE OR POLYMERIC COORDINATION COMPOUNDS

Although phosphanes show useful features for the coordination chemistry, their use as pure structural building blocks, to join metal centres in larger aggregates, has not been yet well explored.
In this work, synthesis and characterization of discrete and polymeric coordination compounds are presented.
As metal centres both monometallic and cluster compounds have been used, whereas as ligands we have used poliphosphanes both commercially available and synthesised in our laboratories.
For simplicity we can classify them in: rigid diphosphanes, flexible diphosphanes and rigid poliphosphanes.