The new rhenium complexes, [ReOCl3(L2)], incorporating bidentate organophosphorus ligands [L2 = dppe-F20 (the perfluorinated analog of dppe), xantphos, rac-BINAP, biphep and DPEphos] were successfully synthesized using [ReOCl3(AsPh3)2] as the precursor. The complexes were characterized by IR, 1H and 31P NMR, elemental analysis and X-ray diffraction. The X-ray structures reveal a distorted octahedral geometry with a facial arrangement of chloro ligands and an axial rhenium-oxo group.
