Synthesis and computational aspects of Al(II)-Al(II) and Ga(II)-Ga(II) dihalides based on an amidinate scaffold

Arun Kumar; Samya Banerjee; Nishant Sharma; Mohd Nazish; Nico Graw; Regine Herbst-Irmer; Dietmar Stalke; Upakarasamy Lourderaj; Herbert W Roesky

doi:10.1039/d2dt00317a

Synthesis and computational aspects of Al(II)-Al(II) and Ga(II)-Ga(II) dihalides based on an amidinate scaffold

Dalton Trans. 2022 Mar 22;51(12):4898-4902. doi: 10.1039/d2dt00317a.

Authors

Arun Kumar¹, Samya Banerjee², Nishant Sharma³, Mohd Nazish¹, Nico Graw¹, Regine Herbst-Irmer¹, Dietmar Stalke¹, Upakarasamy Lourderaj³, Herbert W Roesky¹

Affiliations

¹ Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany. hroesky@gwdg.de.
² Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221005, India. samya.chy@itbhu.ac.in.
³ School of Chemical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar, HBNI, P. O. Jatni, Khurda, Odisha, India. u.lourderaj@niser.ac.in.

PMID: 35262157
DOI: 10.1039/d2dt00317a

Abstract

Amidinate compounds with stabilized aluminium(II) and gallium(II) elements of composition L₂M₂X₂ (3 and 4) have been prepared from their LMX₂ (1 and 2) precursor, where M = Al (1 and 4) and Ga (2 and 3); L = PhC(NⁱPr₂C₆H₃)₂ (1 and 4) and PhC(N^tBu)₂ (2 and 3); and X is I (1 and 4) and Cl (2 and 3) and insights into their bonding are gained. The M-M bond lengths are reported along with the single-crystal X-ray structures of 1-4.