An N-heterocyclic carbene-disilyne complex and its reactivity toward ZnCl2

Torahiko Yamaguchi; Akira Sekiguchi; Matthias Driess

doi:10.1021/ja107160g

An N-heterocyclic carbene-disilyne complex and its reactivity toward ZnCl2

J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Oct 13;132(40):14061-3. doi: 10.1021/ja107160g.

Authors

Torahiko Yamaguchi¹, Akira Sekiguchi, Matthias Driess

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan.

PMID: 20843081
DOI: 10.1021/ja107160g

Abstract

The reaction of disilyne 1 with 1,3,4,5-tetramethylimidazol-2-ylidene (an N-heterocyclic carbene, NHC) produced the disilyne-NHC complex 2, RLSi═SiR: (R = Si(i)Pr[CH(SiMe(3))(2)](2), L = NHC), with a trans geometry of the Si═Si moiety and lone-pair electrons residing on one of the double-bonded Si atoms. Upon complexation of 2 with ZnCl(2), the disilyne-NHC-ZnCl(2) complex 3 was produced, in which the Si═Si bond adopted the cis geometry.