Aza-Dipyrrinate Stabilized Compounds with a Low-Valent Main Group Element

Prakash Chandra Joshi; Vivek Kumar Singh; Pratima Shukla; Hemant Kumar; Jyoti Shukla; Pritam Mahawar; Dharmendra Singh; Selvarajan Nagendran

doi:10.1002/asia.202300365

Aza-Dipyrrinate Stabilized Compounds with a Low-Valent Main Group Element

Chem Asian J. 2023 Sep 1;18(17):e202300365. doi: 10.1002/asia.202300365. Epub 2023 Aug 8.

Authors

Prakash Chandra Joshi¹, Vivek Kumar Singh¹, Pratima Shukla¹, Hemant Kumar¹, Jyoti Shukla¹, Pritam Mahawar¹, Dharmendra Singh¹, Selvarajan Nagendran¹

Affiliation

¹ Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India.

PMID: 37347820
DOI: 10.1002/asia.202300365

Abstract

The possibility of using aza-dipyrromethene (a-DPM) ligands to stabilize compounds containing low-valent main group elements is demonstrated through the isolation of germylenes, a-DPM(p-tol)GeCl (2), a-DPM(Naph)GeCl (6), and a-DPM(Naph)GeN(TMS)₂ (7) (tol=tolyl, Naph=naphthyl). Because of the presence of the a-DPM ligand, these germylenes exhibit an absorption maximum at around 640 nm, a highly red-shifted value previously unknown for germylenes.

Keywords: a-DPM; germylenes; group 14 compounds; low-valent chemistry; main group compounds.

Grants and funding

EMR/2017/005519, CRG/2022/005756/DST SERB