New Isolable Dialkylsilylene and Its Isolable Dimer That Equilibrate in Solution
New Isolable Dialkylsilylene and Its Isolable Dimer That Equilibrate in Solution
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DOI:
10.1021/ja310391m
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发表时间:
2012-12-12
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15
通讯作者:
Iwamoto, Takeaki
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作者:
Abe, Takashi;Tanaka, Ryoji;Iwamoto, Takeaki
The new isolable dialkylsilylene 3 bearing a bidentate alkyl substituent was synthesized. Recrystallization of silylene 3 gave yellow crystals of 3 and orange-red crystals of tetraalkyldisilene 4, a dimer of 3. In the solid state, 3 exists as a monomer with a closest distance of 6.745 angstrom between dicoordinate silicon atoms, while disilene 4 has a remarkably long Si=Si double bond distance of 2.252 angstrom. An equilibrium between 3 and 4 in solution was observed by NMR and UV-vis spectroscopies, and the thermodynamic parameters of the equilibrium were estimated to be Delta H = -36 +/- 3 kJ mol(-1) and Delta S = -170 +/- 15 J mol(-1) K-1. Analysis of the percent buried volume, a measure of the steric demand around the divalent silicon, showed that the flexible steric bulkiness of the alkyl substituent of 3 and 4 allows the reversible dimerization of silylene 3 to disilene 4 and the isolation of both species.