A monomeric three-coordinate magnesium bis(amide)

A R Kennedy; R E Mulvey; J H Schulte

doi:10.1107/s0108270101014408

A monomeric three-coordinate magnesium bis(amide)

Acta Crystallogr C. 2001 Nov;57(Pt 11):1288-9. doi: 10.1107/s0108270101014408. Epub 2001 Nov 13.

Authors

A R Kennedy¹, R E Mulvey, J H Schulte

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XL, Scotland. a.r.kennedy@strath.ac.uk

PMID: 11706251
DOI: 10.1107/s0108270101014408

Abstract

The metallation reaction between dibutylmagnesium and 2,6-diisopropyl-N-(trimethylsilyl)aniline gives the unusual monomeric three-coordinate complex (diethyl ether-kappa O)bis[2,6-diisopropyl-N-(trimethylsilyl)anilido-kappa N]magnesium(II), [Mg(C(15)H(26)NSi)(2)(C(4)H(10)O)] or [Mg[(Me(3)Si)(2,6-(i)Pr(2)C(6)H(3))N](2)(Et(2)O)]. This low-coordinate species has a distorted trigonal-planar coordination environment, with an additional short Mg-C(ipso) contact of 2.799 (2) A.