Novel boron chelate complexes from the reaction of salicylaldehydes, tertiary amines, and diphenylborinic or phenylboronic acid. Crystal and molecular structures of two new types of chelated organoborate salts
The one-pot reaction of equimolar amounts of salicylaldehyde, diphenylborinic acid anhydride, and a tertiary amine in the presence of an alkanol (R′OH) led to the addition of R′OH to the aldehyde group and the formation of an O,O-acetal moiety within the chelate anion with the charge balanced by an ammonium cation arising from the tertiary amine. Exchanging the diphenylborinic acid in the three-component reaction system for phenylboronic acid did not give the analogous adduct or chelate but one additional mole equivalent of phenylboronic acid (anhydride) was incorporated, leading to a polycyclic anion containing pyroboronate and acetal boronate functions with an associated ammonium cation. Crystals of 1-methylpiperidinium 4-ethoxy-2,2-diphenyl-1,3-dioxa-2-borata-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalenate, 6d, are monoclinic, a = 9.522(1), b = 17.703(1), c = 14.974(1) Å, β = 98.275(10)°, Z = 4, space group P21/n, and those of 1-methylpiperidinium 6,10-epoxy-4-methoxy-6,8-diphenyl-5,7,9-trioxa-8-bora-6-borata-5,6,7,8,9,10-hexahydrobenzocyclooctenate, 10e, are monoclinic, a = 7.968(1), b = 19.3707(4), c = 15.9400(5) Å, β = 100.186(5)°, Z = 4, space group P21/n, The structures were solved by direct methods and refined by full-matrix least-squares procedures to R = 0.050 and 0.033 (Rw = 0.040 and 0.032) for 2815 and 3529 reflections with I ≥ 3σ(F2), respectively. Compounds 6d and 10e are both representative of new classes of organoboron chelates. Keywords: salicylaldehyde semiacetal diphenylboron chelate, salicylaldehyde bisboronate, organoboron compound, crystal structure.