Metallole Explained

Metalloles are metallacycle derivatives of cyclopentadiene in which the carbon atom at position 5, the saturated carbon, is replaced by a heteroatom. In contrast to its parent compound, the numbering of the metallole starts at the heteroatom. Some of these compounds are described as organometallic compounds, but in the list below quite a number of metalloids are present too.^[1] Many metalloles are fluorescent. Polymeric derivatives of pyrrole and thiophene are of interest in molecular electronics.Metalloles, which can also be viewed as structural analogs of pyrrole, include:

E, kJ/mol
Pyrrole	N	1.37	1.01	110	0
Phosphole	P	1.81	1.425	90.5	67
Arsole	As	1.94	1.53	86	125
Stibole	Sb	2.14	1.725	80.5	160
Bismole	Bi	2.24	1.82	78	220

• Arsole, a moderately-aromatic arsenic analog
• Bismole, a bismuth analog
• Borole, a boron analog
• Furan (oxole), an oxygen analog
• Gallole, a gallium analog
• Germole, a germanium analog
• Phosphole, a phosphorus analog
• Pyrrole (azole), a nitrogen analog
• Selenophene, a selenium analog
• Silole, a silicon analog
• Stannole, a tin analog
• Stibole, an antimony analog
• Tellurophene, a tellurium analog
• Plumbole,^{[2] [3]} a lead analog
• Thiophene, a sulfur analog
• Titanole, a titanium analog
• Zirconole, a zirconium analog
• Ferrole, an iron analog

See also

• Metallacyclopentanes

Notes and References

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2. Saito. Masaichi. Nakada. Marisa. Kuwabara. Takuya. Owada. Ryota. Furukawa. Shunsuke. Narayanan. Radhika. Abe. Minori. Hada. Masahiko. Tanaka. Ken. Yamamoto. Yoshihiko. 2019-08-26. Inverted Sandwich Rh Complex Bearing a Plumbole Ligand and Its Catalytic Activity. Organometallics. 38. 16. 3099–3103. 10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00339. 0276-7333.
3. Münzfeld. Luca. Sun. Xiaofei. Schlittenhardt. Sören. Schoo. Christoph. Hauser. Adrian. Gillhuber. Sebastian. Weigend. Florian. Ruben. Mario. Roesky. Peter W.. 2021-12-10. Introduction of plumbole to f-element chemistry. Chemical Science. en. 10.1039/D1SC03805B. 2041-6539. free.