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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Keith Izod, Dr Paul Waddell
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The diphosphatetrylenes {(Dipp)(R')P}2E [R' = Mes, E = Ge (1Ge), Sn (1Sn); R' = CH(SiMe3)2, E = Sn (2Sn)] have been isolated and characterized by multinuclear and variable temperature NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography [Dipp = 2,6-iPr2C6H3, Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2]. All three compounds crystallize as discrete monomers with two pyramidal phosphorus centers. However, variable-temperature 31P{1H} NMR spectroscopy indicates that both 1Ge and 2Sn are subject to dynamic exchange between this form and a form containing one planar and one pyramidal phosphorus center in solution. In contrast, 1Sn retains two pyramidal phosphorus centers in solution and exhibits no evidence for exchange with a form containing a planar phosphorus center. The related compound [{(Me3Si)2CH}2P]2Sn (3Sn) was isolated in very low yield and was shown by X-ray crystallography to possess one planar and one pyramidal phosphorus center in the solid state. DFT calculations reveal that the conformations of 1Ge, 1Sn, and 2Sn observed in the solid state are significantly stabilized by the delocalization of electron density from the aromatic rings into the vacant p-orbital at the tetrel center. Thus, for diphosphatetrylenes possessing aromatic substituents at phosphorus, stabilization may be achieved by two competing mechanisms: (i) planarization of one phosphorus center and consequent delocalization of the phosphorus lone pair into the vacant tetrel p-orbital, or (ii) pyramidalization of both phosphorus centers and delocalization of aromatic π-electron density into the tetrel p-orbital. For 3Sn, which lacks aromatic groups, only the former stabilization mechanism is possible.
Author(s): Izod K, Evans P, Waddell PG
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
Year: 2020
Volume: 59
Issue: 1
Pages: 863-874
Print publication date: 06/01/2020
Online publication date: 19/12/2019
Acceptance date: 05/12/2019
Date deposited: 19/12/2019
ISSN (print): 0020-1669
ISSN (electronic): 1520-510X
Publisher: American Chemical Society
URL: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03109
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03109
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