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Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Nov 28;(44):6822-6824. doi: 10.1039/b916326c. Epub 2009 Sep 28.

Synthesis of a germanium analogue of a dithiocarboxylic acid anhydride from the Ge(i) pyridyl-1-azaallyl dimer.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Wing-Por Leung, Wang-Kin Chiu, Kim-Hung Chong, Thomas C W Mak

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China. [email protected].

PMID: 19885491 DOI: 10.1039/b916326c

Abstract

The reaction of pyridyl-1-azaallyl germanium(ii) chloride RGeCl () [R = {N(SiMe(3))C(Ph)C(SiMe(3))(C(5)H(4)N-2)}] with lithium metal afforded the dimeric germanium(i) compound [(RGe)(2)] (); compound reacts with an excess of elemental sulfur to afford the novel germanium analogue of a dithiocarboxylic acid anhydride [{Ge(S)R}(2)S] () via the insertion of elemental sulfur into the Ge(i)-Ge(i) bond followed by the oxidative-addition of elemental sulfur to the germanium(ii) centres.

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