Temperature-dependent electron shuffle in molecular Group 13/15 intermetallic complexes

Chelladurai Ganesamoorthy; Dieter Bläser; Christoph Wölper; Stephan Schulz

doi:10.1002/anie.201406304

Temperature-dependent electron shuffle in molecular Group 13/15 intermetallic complexes

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 Oct 20;53(43):11587-91. doi: 10.1002/anie.201406304. Epub 2014 Sep 5.

Authors

Chelladurai Ganesamoorthy¹, Dieter Bläser, Christoph Wölper, Stephan Schulz

Affiliation

¹ Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstrasse 5-7, S07 S03 C30, 45117 Essen (Germany).

PMID: 25196650
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201406304

Abstract

Monovalent RAl (R=HC[C(Me)N(2,6-iPr2C6H3)]2) reacts with E2Et4 (E=Sb, Bi) with insertion into the weak E-E bond and subsequent formation of RAl(EEt2)2 (E=Sb 1; Bi 2). The analogous reactions of RGa with E2Et4 yield a temperature-dependent equilibrium between RGa(EEt2)2 (E=Sb 3; Bi 4) and the starting reagents. RIn does not interact with Sb2Et4 under various reaction conditions, but formation of RIn(BiEt2)2 (5) was observed in the reaction with Bi2Et4 at low temperature.

Keywords: Group 13 elements; donor-acceptor systems; heterometallic complexes; main-group elements; metal-metal interactions.