Modern Approaches to Silylium Cations in Condensed Phase
Modern Approaches to Silylium Cations in Condensed Phase
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凝聚相硅阳离子的现代方法
DOI:
10.1002/chin.199545304
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发表时间:
1995
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通讯作者:
Shizhong Zhang
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作者:
J. B. Lambert;L. Kania;Shizhong Zhang
Many silicon analogues to carbon-based function-alities were considered to be unlikely structural entities until recently. Numerousexamples of^-bond-ed silicon, however, now have been prepared and X-ray structures obtained, including Si= C, Si= N, and Si= Si. 1 A prominent exception to these advances has been tricoordinate, positively charged silicon, R3-Si+, the analogue of the carbenium ion. The central importance of the carbenium ion in organic chemistry seemed to demand a similar role for its silicon analogue that nature resisted. To overcome this reticence on the part of nature, chemists have sought to produce such materials, both as reactive intermediates and as stable species. As other bastions of silicon intermediates fell, the tricoordinate cation became a focus of attention that probably exceeded its inherent value.For the purposes of this review, free silylium ions (formerly silylenium or silicenium ions) are positively charged, planar, three-coordinate species. In addi-tion, cations may have varying degrees of silylium ion character when the silicon is four coordinate with partial covalent bonding to the fourth coordination site and possesses the preponderance of the positive charge. In contrast, siliconium ions are positively charged species inwhich silicon has higher than four coordination. Some authors prefer to restrict the term silylium ion to the fully tricoordinate form. A continuum of charged structures, however, is well precedented in carbanion chemistry, in which carbon-metal bonds can have varied degrees of covalent character. 2 The term silyl cation or silicocation may apply to either silylium or siliconium ion, within context.