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Contribution to the chemistry of boron, 245: Deprotonation of B,B'-Di- tert-butyl-b,b'-difluorenyldiborane(4) and the structure of the Di-tert- butyl-difluorenylidenediborate(2-) anion
Littger, Ralf,Noeth, Heinrich
, p. 1571 - 1579 (2000)
In contrast to the deprotonation of the diorganyl(fluorenyl)boranes tBu2B(fl-H) and Me2B(fl-H), which cannot be achieved uniformly, the deprotonation of B2(tBu)2(fl-H)2 in THF proceeds smoothly to give the anion B2(tBu)2(fl)22-. The isolated salts have been identified as [Na(thf)(n)]2[B2tBu2(fl)2] and [Na(thf)(OEt2){Na(OEt2)2}][B2tBu2(fl)2]. The X-ray structure of the latter compound reveals a longer B-B bond [1.744(9) A] than that in the parent compound B2(tBu2)(fl-H)2 [1.687(7) A]. One sodium center is coordinated to the five-membered ring of one fluorenylidene substituent, while the other is coordinated to three C atoms of one of the six-membered rings. This results in a rather asymmetric structure. Each sodium center is also coordinated by two ether ligands.