Unusual reactivity in organoaluminium and NHC chemistry: deprotonation of AlMe3 by an NHC moiety involving the formation of a sterically bulky NHC-AlMe3 Lewis adduct

Anne-Laure Schmitt; Gilles Schnee; Richard Welter; Samuel Dagorne

doi:10.1039/b922425d

Unusual reactivity in organoaluminium and NHC chemistry: deprotonation of AlMe3 by an NHC moiety involving the formation of a sterically bulky NHC-AlMe3 Lewis adduct

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Apr 14;46(14):2480-2. doi: 10.1039/b922425d. Epub 2010 Mar 5.

Authors

Anne-Laure Schmitt¹, Gilles Schnee, Richard Welter, Samuel Dagorne

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire DECOMET, Institut de Chimie de Strasbourg (CNRS-Université de Strasbourg), 1 rue Blaise Pascal, 67000 Strasbourg, France.

PMID: 20309474
DOI: 10.1039/b922425d

Abstract

A sterically congested NHC-AlMe(3) Lewis adduct (NHC = 1,3-di-tert-butylimidazol-2-ylidene) was found to either isomerize to an "abnormal" NHC-AlMe(3) species or to be involved in the deprotonation of AlMe(3) to form the corresponding imidazolium species along with an AlMe(3)-stabilized methylene aluminium anion.