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Li F, Sevov SC. Synthesis, structures, and solution dynamics of tetrasubstituted nine-atom germanium deltahedral clusters. J Am Chem Soc. 2014;136(34):12056-63doi: 10.1021/ja505826x.
Li, F., & Sevov, S. C. (2014). Synthesis, structures, and solution dynamics of tetrasubstituted nine-atom germanium deltahedral clusters. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136(34), 12056-63. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja505826x
Li, Feng, and Sevov, Slavi C. "Synthesis, structures, and solution dynamics of tetrasubstituted nine-atom germanium deltahedral clusters." Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 136,34 (2014): 12056-63. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/ja505826x
Li F, Sevov SC. Synthesis, structures, and solution dynamics of tetrasubstituted nine-atom germanium deltahedral clusters. J Am Chem Soc. 2014 Aug 27;136(34):12056-63. doi: 10.1021/ja505826x. Epub 2014 Aug 19. PMID: 25116405.
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J Am Chem Soc. 2014 Aug 27;136(34):12056-63. doi: 10.1021/ja505826x. Epub 2014 Aug 19.

Synthesis, structures, and solution dynamics of tetrasubstituted nine-atom germanium deltahedral clusters.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Feng Li, Slavi C Sevov

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States.

PMID: 25116405 DOI: 10.1021/ja505826x

Abstract

Reported are the rational synthesis, structures, and solution dynamics of three tetrasubstituted and neutral Ge9-based deltahedral clusters [Ge9R3R'](0), where R = Si(SiMe3)3 and R' = Et (1), Sn(n)Bu3 (2), or Tl (3). The first step of the synthesis is a reaction of an acetonitrile suspension of the intermetallic precursor compound K4Ge9 with {Si(SiMe3)3}Cl which produces the trisubstituted monoanions [Ge9{Si(SiMe3)3}](-). A benzene suspension of the latter is then reacted with Sn(n)Bu3Cl or TlCp to produce 2 and 3, respectively, while the same acetonitrile solution is reacted with EtBr in order to produce 1. All three structures can be viewed as tricapped trigonal prisms of Ge9 with the three "hypersilyl" substituents, Si(SiMe3)3, exo-bonded to the capping atoms. The fourth substituent in 1, the ethyl group, is exo-bonded to one of the six available Ge atoms with the Ge-C bond positioned radially to the Ge9 core. In the case of 2, on the other hand, the tin fragment is found above one of the triangular bases of the prism interacting with one or more Ge atoms in three crystallographically different molecules in the structure. Lastly, the Tl atom in the structure of 3 is found capping a pseudosquare face between two hypersilyl substituents. NMR spectroscopy indicates that all three compounds are dynamic at room temperature. Variable-temperature studies suggest that the process in 1 and 2 is intramolecular while the process in 3 involves dissociation of the Tl(+) ion from the molecule followed by association at the same or another equivalent pseudosquare face of the molecule. Thus, the latter compound may be considered to a large extent to be ionic as it is made of a thallium cation and a trisubstituted cluster anion.

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