1. Controlling Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination at Tin(I) via Hemi-Lability
- Author
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Nicholas H. Rees, Agamemnon E. Crumpton, Petra Vasko, Simon Aldridge, Jamie Hicks, Caitilín McManus, and Alexa Caise
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oxidative addition ,chemistry.chemical_element ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Catalysis ,Dissociation (chemistry) ,Reductive elimination ,reversibility ,Nucleophilic aromatic substitution ,tin ,Polymer chemistry ,Pincer ligand ,kemiallinen synteesi ,Chemistry ,010405 organic chemistry ,reductive elimination ,ligandit ,kompleksiyhdisteet ,General Chemistry ,General Medicine ,Acceptor ,Oxidative addition ,3. Good health ,0104 chemical sciences ,hemi-labile ligand ,orgaaniset tinayhdisteet ,tina ,Amine gas treating ,Tin - Abstract
We report on the synthesis of a distannyne supported by a pincer ligand bearing pendant amine donors that is capable of reversibly activating E–H bonds at one or both of the tin centres through dissociation of the hemi-labile N–Sn donor/acceptor interactions. This chemistry can be exploited to sequentially (and reversibly) assemble mixed-valence chains of tin atoms of the type ArSn{Sn(Ar)H} n SnAr ( n = 1, 2). The experimentally observed (decreasing) propensity towards chain growth with increasing chain length can be rationalized both thermodynamically and kinetically by the electron-withdrawing properties of the –Sn(Ar)H– backbone units generated via oxidative addition. peerReviewed
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- 2021