1441046-04-3Relevant articles and documents
Preparation of a stable disilane amidinium heterocycle and attempted syntheses of an inorganic N-heterocyclic carbene
Al-Rafia, S.M. Ibrahim,Goettel, James T.,Lummis, Paul A.,McDonald, Robert,Ferguson, Michael J.,Rivard, Eric
, p. 26 - 32 (2013/07/05)
The cyclic disilane amidinium salt [(Me2SiNDipp) 2CH]OTf (Dipp = 2,6-iPr2C6H 3; OTf = OSO2CF3-) was obtained in high yield, and attempts to generate the N-heterocyclic carbene [(Me 2SiNDipp)2C:] via deprotonation with numerous bases exclusively gave ring-opened products of the general form: R-SiMe 2-SiMe2N(Dipp)-CHNDipp (R = carbon-, nitrogen- or oxygen-based nucleophiles). Although this approach was not directly successful in generating silicon-based N-heterocyclic carbenes, judicious manipulation of the ring-bound substituents might enable the future synthesis of new inorganic carbenes to transpire.