Multinuclear NMR Study of the Structure and Intramolecular Dynamics of (eta(2)-Acetone phenylhydrazonato)tetrafluorooxotungsten(VI)

Using one- and two-dimensional techniques of (1)H, (13)C, (15)N, and (19)F NMR spectroscopy, it was proved that acetone phenylhydrazone (H-aph) acts as a two-center N,N-donor ligand in the complex [WOF(4)(aph)](-). As a result of the coordination to tungsten, the ligand conformation changes from E to Z, and at the same time the phenyl ring is turned out of the >N-N=C< plane. At low temperatures (-30 degrees C), the equatorial plane of the pentagonal-bipyramidal tungsten polyhedron comprises two donor nitrogen atoms of hydrazone and three fluoro ligands. At elevated temperatures, stereoisomeric interconversion caused by hindered intramolecular rotation of the aph(-) ligand occurs. The mechanism of this process was elucidated on the basis of the dynamic effects in (19)F spectra and line-shape analysis of the trans-CH(3) resonance in (13)C spectra split due to direct "through-space" coupling with the proximate fluoro ligand.