A germanimidoyl chloride: synthesis, characterization and reactivity

Tong Li; Li Zhang; Yuhao He; Yizhen Chen; Dongmin Wang; Jingjing Liu; Gengwen Tan

doi:10.1039/d2cc05970c

A germanimidoyl chloride: synthesis, characterization and reactivity

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Feb 2;59(11):1533-1536. doi: 10.1039/d2cc05970c.

Authors

Tong Li¹, Li Zhang², Yuhao He¹, Yizhen Chen¹, Dongmin Wang¹, Jingjing Liu¹, Gengwen Tan^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Innovation Center for Chemical Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. jjliu@suda.edu.cn.
² School of Electronic Engineering, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou 545000, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Chemistry and Material Technology of Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China.

PMID: 36661338
DOI: 10.1039/d2cc05970c

Abstract

The first germanimidoyl chloride M^sFluind^tBu-Ge(Cl)NMes (2, where M^sFluind^tBu is a bulky hydrindacene skeleton) was synthesized through the reaction of M^sFluind^tBu-GeCl (1) and mesityl azide (MesN₃). In contrast, treatment of 1 with a less bulky azide ArN₃ (Ar = 4-^tBuC₆H₄) produced a germatetrazole chloride M^sFluind^tBu-Ge(Cl)N₄Ar₂ (3), and a salt [M^sFluind^tBu-GeN₄Ar₂]⁺[BAr^F₄]^- (4; Ar^F = 3,5-(CF₃)₂C₆H₃) followed by chloride abstraction with NaBAr^F₄, both bearing a five-membered GeN₄ ring. Functionalization of 2 with Ar'Li (Ar' = 3,5-^tBu₂C₆H₃) or MeLi furnished a germanimine M^sFluind^tBu-Ge(Ar')NMes (5) or an amide lithium salt M^sFluind^tBu-Ge(Me)₂-N(Mes)Li(thf) (6).