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Unusual formation of a N-heterocyclic germylene via homolytic cleavage of a C-C bond
Li, Yan,Mondal, Kartik Chandra,Stollberg, Peter,Zhu, Hongping,Roesky, Herbert W.,Herbst-Irmer, Regine,Stalke, Dietmar,Fliegl, Heike
, p. 3356 - 3358 (2014)
Reaction of the monoanionic radical salt IP-K+ (IP = (Py)CH(=NR); Py = C5H4N, R = 2,6-iPr2C 6H3; α-iminopyridine) with GeCl2(dioxane) afforded compound (IPGeCl)2 (1) which produced red blocks of IPGe: (2), when treated with KC8 in toluene. 1 is a digermylene formed via C-C coupling between two carbon-centered radicals. 2 can be considered as an analogue of a N-heterocyclic carbene, which exhibits a five-membered GeC 2N2 ring with one CC double bond. 2 is formed by two-electron reduction of 1 with cleavage of the two Ge-Cl bonds and the central C-C single bond. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2014.
