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Lookup NU author(s): Huanxin Zhang, Dr Nathan Davison, Dr Jack Hemingway, Dr Paul Waddell, Dr James DawsonORCiD, Dr Erli Lu
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© 2025 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. The sodium anion (sodide) is an uncommon alkali metal species, whose reactivity has been scarcely studied, with previous reports limited to decomposition and quenching reactions of ill-characterized species formed in situ. Based on our recent report of the first gram-scale synthesis of a well-characterized sodide complex, [Na+(2,2,2-cryptand)]Na– (1), we now describe its reactivity with phenyl-substituted ethylenes and a cyclic polyolefin. Depending on the substitution pattern, 1 mediates either 1-electron or 2-electron reduction. Reaction with a cyclic multiolefin, 1,3,5,7-cyclooctatetraene (COT), exhibits two-electron reduction to produce COT2– species.
Author(s): Zhang H, Davison N, Hemingway JM, Male L, Waddell PG, Deakin J, Tuna F, Dawson JA, Lu E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Inorganic Chemistry
Year: 2025
Volume: 64
Issue: 51
Pages: 25195-25204
Print publication date: 29/12/2025
Online publication date: 12/12/2025
Acceptance date: 03/12/2025
Date deposited: 12/01/2026
ISSN (print): 0020-1669
ISSN (electronic): 1520-510X
Publisher: American Chemical Society
URL: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04279
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04279
Data Access Statement: The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04279.
PubMed id: 41383120
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