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Experimental and computational study of auxiliary molecular effects on the mechanism of the addition of hydrazines to a low-valent germanium complex
Brown, Zachary D.,Guo, Jing-Dong,Nagase, Shigeru,Power, Philip P.
, p. 3768 - 3772 (2012/06/18)
Reaction of the diarylgermylene Ge(ArMe6)2 (ArMe 6 = C6H3-2,6-(C6H 2-2,4,6-(CH3)3)2) with hydrazine and methylhydrazine gave the first structurally characterized Ge(IV) hydrazide complexes, (ArMe6)2Ge(H)NHNHR (R = H, Me). A detailed computational study of the mechanism of this N-H bond activation showed that the reaction proceeds via an intermolecular proton transfer, which is mediated by a second equivalent of hydrazine that interacts with the hydrazine-Ge(ArMe 6)2 adduct intermediate through N- - -H hydrogen bonding. This auxiliary effect is blocked when the substituted derivative N,N-dimethylhydrazine is used, and a Lewis adduct complex of Ge(ArMe 6)2 is the only product obtained.
