Reductive linear- and cyclo-trimerization of isocyanides using an Al-Al-bonded compound

Weixing Chen; Yanxia Zhao; Wenhua Xu; Ji-Hu Su; Lingyi Shen; Li Liu; Biao Wu; Xiao-Juan Yang

doi:10.1039/c9cc04344f

Reductive linear- and cyclo-trimerization of isocyanides using an Al-Al-bonded compound

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Aug 7;55(64):9452-9455. doi: 10.1039/c9cc04344f.

Authors

Weixing Chen¹, Yanxia Zhao, Wenhua Xu, Ji-Hu Su, Lingyi Shen, Li Liu, Biao Wu, Xiao-Juan Yang

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, China. zhaoyx@nwu.edu.cn yangxiaojuan@nwu.edu.cn.

PMID: 31322637
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc04344f

Abstract

Dialumane 1 reacts with tBuNC to produce a reductive dimerization adduct [LAl(tBuN[double bond, length as m-dash]C-C[double bond, length as m-dash]NtBu)AlL] (2). In the presence of Na, 1 can promote linear- and cyclo-trimerization of isocyanides, affording products [Na][LAl{(tBuNC)3}AlL] (3 and 4) and [Na][LAl{(tBuNC)3}Al(C[triple bond, length as m-dash]N)L] (5), the latter of which features a unique aromatic tri(tert-butylimino)deltate dianion [C3N3(tBu)3]2-.