Lewis-acid induced disaggregation of dimeric arylantimony oxides

Ralf Kather; Tomáš Svoboda; Maren Wehrhahn; Elena Rychagova; Enno Lork; Libor Dostál; Sergey Ketkov; Jens Beckmann

doi:10.1039/c5cc00738k

Lewis-acid induced disaggregation of dimeric arylantimony oxides

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Apr 7;51(27):5932-5. doi: 10.1039/c5cc00738k. Epub 2015 Mar 3.

Authors

Ralf Kather¹, Tomáš Svoboda, Maren Wehrhahn, Elena Rychagova, Enno Lork, Libor Dostál, Sergey Ketkov, Jens Beckmann

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Bremen University, Leobener Straße, 28359 Bremen, Germany. j.beckmann@uni-bremen.de.

PMID: 25732899
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc00738k

Abstract

The previously known dimeric arylantimony oxides (Ph3SbO)2 and [2,6-(Me2NCH2)2C6H3SbO]2 were disaggregated by the Lewis acid B(C6F5)3 giving rise to the formation of the Lewis pair complexes Ph3SbOB(C6F5)3 and 2,6-(Me2NCH2)2C6H3SbOB(C6F5)3 having short bipolar single Sb-O bonds.