[Me3Si][R-CB11F11]-Synthesis and Properties
[Me3Si][R-CB11F11]-Synthesis and Properties
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200701136
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Lehmann, Christian W.
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作者:
Kueppers, Torsten;Bernhardt, Eduard;Lehmann, Christian W.
The synthesis and stabilization of electrophilic cations requires chemically robust, weakly coordinating anions or the corresponding Lewis super acids. The closo-carboranes [RCB11F11]¿ with R= H, alkyl, or F, belong to the group of weakly coordinating anions that are resistant to fluoride abstraction.[1] Various salts of the parent clusters were reported as early as 1967,[2, 3] while their fluorinated derivatives were only accessible 30 years later.[4] The [CH3CB11F11]¿ anion is so inert that it is able to stabilize the extremely electrophilic [Al (CH3) 2]+ cation.[5] Although this compound was the first example of a salt of a dimethylaluminium cation, no spectroscopic or structural data for it have been reported to date.Trimethylsilyl compounds of the type Me3SiX are convenient reagents for the exchange of X against fluoride or chloride due to rapid formation of volatile Me3SiF or Me3SiCl. Thus, the combination of a Me3Si group bound to a weakly coordinating anion should allow access to novel electrophilic cations in the condensed phase. Herein, we describe the synthesis and properties of [Me3Si][RCB11F11](R= H (1), C2H5 (2)). The title compounds were prepared in a multistep sequence, the last step of which involves the reaction of the triphenylmethyl salts with Me3SiH [6] as shown in Equation (1).