Solid-state and solution structure of a hypervalent AX5 compound: Sb(C6F5)5

M Angeles García-Monforte; Pablo J Alonso; Irene Ara; Babil Menjón; Pilar Romero

doi:10.1002/anie.201108858

Solid-state and solution structure of a hypervalent AX5 compound: Sb(C6F5)5

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2012 Mar 12;51(11):2754-7. doi: 10.1002/anie.201108858. Epub 2012 Feb 3.

Authors

M Angeles García-Monforte¹, Pablo J Alonso, Irene Ara, Babil Menjón, Pilar Romero

Affiliation

¹ Instituto de Síntesis Química y Catálisis Homogénea, Universidad de Zaragoza-C.S.I.C., Spain.

PMID: 22307580
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201108858

Abstract

Eliminating restraints: a trigonal-bipyramidal structure has been found to be the energetically favored geometry of the hypervalent AX(5) molecule Sb(C(6)F(5))(5) in the solid state and also in fluid solution, where molecules move freely and no crystal packing effects operate.