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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Keith Izod, Peter Evans, Dr Paul Waddell
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Stable acyclic arsenium cations R2As+, isoelectronic analogues of germylenes, are rare in comparison to the corresponding phosphenium cations. The first example of a diphosphaarsenium salt [{(Dipp)2P}2As][Al{OC(CF3)3}4].1½PhMe (2) is described. This salt exhibits remarkable stability due to delocalisation of a lone pair from a planar phosphorus centre into the vacant p-orbital at arsenic; the bonding in 2 has been probed using DFT calculations. An attempt to synthesise an analogous diphosphaphosphenium salt unexpectedly generated the cyclic phosphonium salt [cyclo-{(Mes)P}2P(Mes)2][BArF4].CyMe (5.CyMe), via cyclisation of a putative phosphine-substituted diphosphene cation intermediate.
Author(s): Izod k, Evans P, Waddell PG
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Year: 2019
Volume: 58
Issue: 32
Pages: 11007-11012
Print publication date: 05/08/2019
Online publication date: 03/06/2019
Acceptance date: 03/06/2019
Date deposited: 11/06/2019
ISSN (print): 1433-7851
ISSN (electronic): 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201905922
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201905922
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