HEXACOORDINATED CARBON OR TETRACOVALENT SILICON

Authors
SCHIEMENZ GP SCHIEMENZ B PETERSEN S WOLFF C
Citation
Gp. Schiemenz et al., HEXACOORDINATED CARBON OR TETRACOVALENT SILICON, Chirality, 10(1-2), 1998, pp. 180-189
Citations number
64
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Medicinal","Chemistry Analytical","Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
Chirality → ACNP
ISSN journal
08990042
Volume
10
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
180 - 189
Database
ISI
SICI code
0899-0042(1998)10:1-2<180:HCOTS>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Hexacoordinate silicon has been claimed to occur in bis(8-dimethylamin o-naphth-1-yl) silanes on the basis of X-ray data and NMR spectra. Ver y much the same effects are shown by a bis(8-dimethylamino-naphth-1-yl ) carbinol, pointing to essentially the same bonding in the Si and C c ompounds. Faced with the choice that either the carbon in the carbinol is hexacoordinate, too, or that the silicon in the silanes is, in fac t, tetracovalent, we prefer the latter conclusion. (C) 1998 Wiley-Liss , Inc.