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Interaction of the electrophilic bis(pentafluorophenyl)iodonium cation [(C6F5)2I]+ with the ambident pseudohalogenide anions [SCN]- and [CN]-
Hirschberg, Markus E.,Barthen, Peter,Frohn, Hermann-Josef,Bl?ser, Dieter,Tobey, Briac,Jansen, Georg
, p. 28 - 33 (2014)
The iodonium pseudohalide compounds, [(C6F5) 2I][X] (X = SCN and CN) were synthesized by means of fluoride substitution in [(C6F5)2I][F] with the Lewis acidic reagents (CH3)3Si-NCS and (CH3) 3Si-CN. The isolated iodonium pseudohalides are intrinsically unstable solids. Decomposition resulted in equimolar amounts of C 6F5I and C6F5SCN or C 6F5I and C6F5CN, respectively. In case of [(C6F5)2I][SCN] single crystals could be grown from CH2Cl2. The crystal structure revealed a dimer with an eight membered ring formed by two ambident anions bridging the iodine atoms of two cations by N and S coordination. The favored dimerization of [(C6F5)2I][SCN] and [(C6F 5)2I][CN] in the gas phase is supported by ab initio computations.