- Facile Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Trialkoxysilanols: (RO)2(R′O)SiOH
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Trialkoxysilanols, (RO)3SiOH, are useful as ligands in transition-metal complexes because they provide models for silica-supported metal sites or precursors for the thermolytic precursor approach. However, their synthesis is mostly limited to symmetrical ones, where all RO ligands are the same. However, unsymmetrically substituted trialkoxysilanols could offer significant advantages over their symmetrical counterparts by facilitating crystallization of complexes, lowering crystallographic disorder, changing the thermal properties of the complexes made, and making the addition of pendant functional groups possible. Herein, a simple, general synthetic procedure yielding unsymmetrical trialkoxysilanols (RO)2(R′O)SiOH is presented using imidazole as a promoter.
- Docherty, Scott R.,Estes, Deven P.,Copéret, Christophe
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- Synthesis of homoleptic, divalent lanthanide (Sm, Eu) complexes: Via oxidative transmetallation
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The direct synthesis of neutral, divalent samarium and europium complexes supported by the bulky bis(tris-tert-butoxysilyl)amide (BTTSA) ligand via oxidative transmetallation is reported. Through the use of a copper(i) ligand complex, conventional lanthanide halide starting materials for complex formation are circumvented and the clean formation of divalent complexes is achieved directly from the bulk metal. The structures of the [Ln(BTTSA)2] (Ln = Sm, Eu) complexes are isotypic, presenting divalent lanthanide ions with distorted, six-coordinate geometries.
- Gompa, Thaige P.,Jiang, Ningxin,Bacsa, John,La Pierre, Henry S.
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