The elusive silyliumylidene [ClSi:]+ and silathionium [ClSi=S]+ cations stabilized by bis(iminophosphorane) chelate ligand.
The elusive silyliumylidene [ClSi:]+ and silathionium [ClSi=S]+ cations stabilized by bis(iminophosphorane) chelate ligand.
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难以捉摸的亚硅基[ClSi:]和硅硫鎓[ClSi=S]阳离子由双(亚氨基正膦)螯合配体稳定。
DOI:
10.1002/anie.201205840
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发表时间:
2012
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通讯作者:
M. Driess
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作者:
Y. Xiong;Shenglai Yao;S. Inoue;E. Irran;M. Driess
Silylenes, the silicon analogues of singlet carbenes, are highly reactive compounds with dicoordinate divalent silicon atoms. Parent silylene and its derivatives R2SiD with small organic groups R represent reactive intermediates, which have been investigated in the gas-phase, in diluted solutions, and in frozen rare-gas matrices at low temperatures. Likewise, dichlorosilylene (DSiCl2) is an elusive divalent silicon species, which plays a particular role in the Siemens process, in the chemical vapor deposition of thin silicon films, and in dry etching of silicon wafers by elemental chlorine, as well as in the plasma etching of silicon and silicon dioxide interfaces. Although synthesis and reactivity of gaseous DSiCl2 has been investigated since 1964, studies on its reactivity have been limited to the gas phase and matrix-isolation systems at low temperatures (77 K), because it polymerizes readily to (SiCl2)n at higher temperatures. [3] Since 1994, the concept of donor–acceptor stabilization has been very successfully applied to the synthesis of several types of isolable cyclic and acyclic silylenes. Recent progress includes the striking synthesis of stable H2Si: complexes, reported by Rivard, Robinson, and their respective co-workers. In 2009, the research groups of Roesky and Filippou showed that dihalosilylenes DSiX2 (X = Cl, Br) can be stabilized by Nheterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) to form isolable NHC!SiX2 complexes A (Scheme 1). The latter represent long-sought convenient dihalosilicon(II) precursors. Another challenge is the synthesis of isolable divalent silicon cations, that is, silyliumylidene cations ([RSiD]; R = H, halogen, organo groups). Remarkably, by utilizing suitable thermodynamic and/or kinetic stabilization, the first isolable silyliumylidene cations RSi (R = pentaalkylcyclopentadienyl, b-diketiminate), which bear bulky monovalent substituents R with additional donor sites, could be synthesized. Other types of silyliumylidenes would be very attractive for employment as versatile building blocks and Lewis acid catalysts. Accordingly, monochlorosilyliumylidene [ClSiD] appears to be a very promising silyliumylidene precursor, because the chlorine atom could be replaced by suitable nucleophiles R to pave the way to other types of silyliumylidene derivatives [RSiD]. However, [ClSiD] can only be generated by gas-phase synthesis, for example, by hollow cathode discharge of SiCl4 diluted in a helium atmosphere, and can only be detected by infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry in the gas phase under unusual experimental conditions. Very recently, Reid, Roesky, Stalke, and their respective co-workers synthesized the cationic chlorogermyliumylidene and chlorostannyliumylidene complexes B through a Lewis base mediated autoionization of GeCl2 and SnCl2 in the presence of a neutral tridentate donor ligand (Scheme 1). In 1996, Cooks and co-workers reported a mass spectrometry study of bis(pyridine)-supported [ClSiD]. However, an isolable complex that bears the chlorosilyliumylidene cation is still unknown. The formation of B prompted us to develop a Lewis base stabilized chlorosilyliumylidene [ClSiD] by employing a bis(ylide) donor ligand. Recently, we have shown that a bis(phosphorus ylide) can serve as an effective donor to stabilize highly Lewis acidic Si sites (see carbocyclic silylene C in Scheme 1). Herein, we report the synthesis of the first isolable chlorosilyliumylidene species 2 stabilized by the bis(iminophosphorane) chelate ligand 1. Moreover, the reactivity of 2 toward elemental sulfur, which leads to the unprecedented chlorosilathionium complex 3 (Scheme 2), is presented. Because of the two N=PnBu3 ylide moieties, which are bonded at positions 1 and 8 of the naphthalene ring, the neutral ligand 1 behaves both as a very strong Brçnsted and Lewis base (Scheme 2). Thus, treatment of trichlorosilane Scheme 1. NHC-stabilized dihalosilylenes A, chlorogermyliumylidenes and their tin analogues B, and the bis(phosphorus ylide)-stabilized silylenes C.